Art and Artist
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Historical Figures
Revolution
100

Vitruvian Man

Leonardo da Vinci

100

Ancient trade route China to West

Silk Road

100

1095 CE organized effort to reclaim the Holy Land from Muslims

The Crusades

100

 Unwavering faith, military leadership changed the course of the 100 year war.

Joan of Arc

100

Telescope, microscope, thermometer, air pump.

Inventions of scientific revolution

200

Sistine Chapel

Michelangelo

200

Origin of a base 60 system, 7 day week, zodiac and cuneiform.

Mesopotamia 

200

European pandemic  

The Black Death

200

Considered greatest sculptor of the early Renaissance

Donatello

200

Credited as the most influential person of the scientific revolution.

Sir Issac Newton

300

Birth of Venus

Botticelli

300

Father of Modern medicine

Galileo

300

King John of England decree that the King and his government; were not above the law.

The Magna Carta

300

Renaissance writer, “The Prince”

Machiavelli

300

Wrote “Fabric of the Human Body”. Foundation of Modern Biology.

Andreas Vesalius

400

 The most famous painter of the Middle Ages

Giotto di Bondone

400

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Leonardo

Donatello

Raphael

Michelangelo

400

Fall of the Roman Empire led to this period

Middle Ages

400

Initially influenced by Leonardo, became recognized as the greatest artist ever; surpassing da Vinci

Raphael

400

Avid student of astronomy. Heliocentric theory

Copernicus

500

Trinity of the Renaissance 

Leonardo da Vinci

Michelangelo

Raphael

500

There is building named after this person from the Middle Ages at Seton Hall University 

Thomas Aquinas, Aquinas Hall


500

“I think, therefore I am”. 

Rene Descartes

500

Greek astronomer. Geocentric theory that ruled the universe of astronomy.

Ptolemy

500

“scientific knowledge obtained after making observations, inductive reasoning to interpret the observations” 

Francis Bacon