Year
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Description
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Answer
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1455–1502
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This Spanish family produces two Popes, notorious for vice and corruption
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Borgia
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1497
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This Portuguese explorer sails from Europe to India
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Vasco da Gama
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1494
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First evidence of this "water of life" in Scotland
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Scotch whisky
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1492
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This explorer "discovers" the New World
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Christopher Columbus
|
1490
|
This artist draws "The Vitruvian Man"
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Leonardo da Vinci
|
1487
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The Duke of Bavaria makes laws concerning the purity of this substance
|
Beer
|
1485
|
This hunchbacked King of England meets his end at the Battle of Bosworth Field
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Richard III
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1455–1487
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The houses of Lancaster and York fight this series of war for the English crown
|
Wars of the Roses
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1469
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This country is united after Ferdinand of Aragon marries Isabella of Castille
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Spain
|
1448–1476
|
This Wallachian ruler becomes infamous for impaling enemies
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Vlad the Impaler
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1453
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This city is captured by the Turks, ending the Byzantine empire
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Constantinople
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1450
|
Johannes Gutenberg invents this device (although it already existed in China)
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Printing press
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1431
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This female French warrior is burned at the stake by the English
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Joan of Arc
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1405–1433
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This country launches a "treasure fleet" of over 300 ships dispensing gifts throughout the Indian Ocean
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China
|
1430
|
Norse settlements on this island collapse with no survivors
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Greenland
|
1415
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Against great odds, Henry V defeats the French at this famous battle
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Battle of Agincourt
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1406–1420
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The Forbidden City palace is built in this capital
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Beijing
|
1400s
|
This sport is invented in Scotland
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Golf
|
1400s
|
This giant bird is driven to extinction by Maori hunters in New Zealand
|
Moa
|
1400s
|
The Medici family become de-facto rulers of this city
|
Florence
|
What?
Constantinople had been referred to as "the City" by Byzantines, due to it being the Reigning City/City of all cities.
You gotta be kidding me...
Nearly always, the people doing the complaining are woefully ignorant themselves.
And Richard III was not a hunchback - his skeleton proves it.