The………………….., was an instrument which indicated direction and helped the daring navigators, who explored new lands which later changed the very face of the Earth.

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• …………………….was the Portuguese ruler who gave encouragement and helps to navigators to explore new sea routes to east
• In 1486 A.D …………………sailed along the West coast of Africa and went as far as the cape of storms, which later renamed as the Cape of Good Hope by the Portuguese King as it gave definite hope of discovering a new sea-route to the East.
• In his book, “In praise of folly”, ……………..bitterly denounced the worldliness and vulgarity of the churchmen and ridiculed superstition.
• Peter I or peter the Great was a notable ruler who tried to establish absolute monarchy in Europe and earned the reputation of being the most celebrated and the most controversial absolute monarch in the history of ……………..
• In Common Sense, …………made a persuasive and passionate argument to the colonists that the cause of independence was just and urgent.
• In 1618, a war broke out in …………..between the Catholics and the Protestants, which lasted for thirty years. Hence it is known as the Thirty Years War.
• ………………… was an intellectual and Cultural Revolution which is usually associated with the 18th century.
• In 1904, …………………published his monumental work ‘The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism’ in which he argued that capitalism was the product of Protestantism.
• Frederick was involved in a war which lasted from 1756-63 and is popularly known as………………
• The term Renaissance was first used by the Italian artist and critic …………in his book ‘The Lives of the Artists’