Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
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Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and Charles I of the Spanish Empire.
The result of what is known as the German Peasants' War was a crushing of the revolt. Tens of thousands of peasants were killed.
The deliberations of the Council of Trent.
Aurangzeb was the great-grandson of Akbar. Akbar was a generous king and treated all religions equally. But Aurangzeb was a true Muslim. He revived Akbar's policies and re-imposed taxes on non-Muslims. Aurangzeb was the most cruel Mughal King while Akbar was the greatest ruler of the Mughal dynasty.
He refused to let Henry VIII have an annullment to his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
In West African cultures, slaves were allowed to own slaves of their own, while those in the Atlantic slave trade were not.
Desiderius Erasmus
Columbus planned to reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean, while Dias hoped to reach Asia by sailing around Africa and through the Indian Ocean.
The Commercial Revolution led to the adoption of mercantilism in Europe, while the Industrial Revolution contributed to the end of mercantilism.
It led some rulers to oppose the pope in the hopes of seizing that power for themselves.
The Renaissance began in Italian city states, where middle class citizens grew to challenge the traditional powers of feudal Europe
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