Erotosthenes- Greek- Alexandria (276-194 BC)
Greek that was the first to argue that the world was round through
Summer Solstice
o The sun at noon
o was at a different angle in Sirine than Alexandria
Estimated how big the Earth (only a
16% error) Claudius Ptolemy
Geography was of influential to claudius
He was known as a renaissance man
Created map that Christopher Columbus used
Augustine of Hippo (St. Augustine) (354-430)
Argued that the mind is corrupted by sin and you can’t trust reason
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Catholic church leader
Opened the door in Europe to letting science and philosophy back in.
He argued faith & men are compatible
Muslim scholar- Averroes (IBN RUSHD)
Influenced Thomas Aquinas
Reopened science and philosophy
Charlemagne was a Frankish king (The Franks lived in France, Germany, Austria,
The Netherlands)
December 25, 800 AD- Crowned by the Pope
The role of the new “Holy Roman Empire” would be to protect the Pope and
the Catholic Church
Over time, the succession of the Emperor would be determined by a handful
of nobility. Known as electors. Electors accepted gifts
One very powerful, noble family in Europe who often bribed the electors was
the Hapsburg family from Austria. They were a family that claimed God chose
them for a special purpose. Their purpose was to prepare the world for the
2nd coming. They are collecting a lot of sacred objects
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, 1519- Hernando Cortez left Cuba with 300 Spaniards and 200 slaves and sailed
toward China
Landed in Mexico
Cortez is given gifts by Aztecs- they think Cortez might be Quetzalcoatl, an old
Toltec God Cortez heads toward the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan (maybe 1
million people)
Cortez and his men first fight against the Tlaxcalans
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