Martin Waldseemüller

Amerigo Vespucci, Jacques Cartier, and Henry Hudson are only a few examples of European white men who helped to shape the US as we know it today. These men not only helped found America, but they brought their country’s cultures along with them. Vespucci traveled from Spain, along with supplies to find new trade routes which would hopefully make waterways around North America. Cartier, on the other hand, was from France, he explored mostly to look for gold, silver, copper and spices. He wasn’t, however, trying to hurt the land or native people in the process, like other explorers were. Henry Hudson sailed for England, he was looking for new information on the North American water routes and trading between different countries. These explorers aren’t the only explorers that sailed to America, but the other explorers also come from all over the world. Amerigo Vespucci brought many different things to his voyages, he wasn't trying to find a new land for Spain. He was instead looking for new trade routes and to study the land he might find. With him, he would bring paper, compasses, and ink, along with the “normal items” that would typically be brought on a water voyage. These were the usual items he would bring with him on a voyage to anywhere. He not only traveled to America. Vespucci explored Brazil, St. Lawrence, and Argentina learning all he could about these new, and exciting places. The natives in this newly discovered land helped him learn all he could about their…

Martin Martin is an American sitcom that aired for five seasons on Fox from August 27, 1992 to May 1, 1997. Reflecting the rising popularity of the Fox network throughout the 1990s. Set in Detroit, the series stars Martin Lawrence in the role of Martin Payne, a jockey with a girlfriend named Gina Waters. As the series progressed, plotlines saw Martin eventually move on to become the host of the talk show Word on the Street, which aired on the small Detroit public-access television station…

Cosmography is the study of the known world and its place in the cosmos. This study played a significant role in our understanding of how the New World was discovered. In 1506, two men by the names of Matthias Ringmann and Martin Waldseemüller, collaborated together on a magnificent map that depicted something no one had ever seen before. Through the descriptive letters from a Florentine merchant, Amerigo Vespucci, Ringmann and Waldseemüller were able to formulate a textbook titled, Introduction…

During the Reformation the both protestant and religious authority their propaganda were made to gain public interest into adopting new and improve ideas of religious practices. Both groups had attempted to publish pamphlets, posters, and bibles to continue on influencing and attracting new believers. They both had the same belief that salvation is the way to eternal life from God’s will for all people. Furthermore, the proposition and faith of the reform writers such as Martin Luther, mass…

20 million dead and one man responsible. That one man would be known as Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party. One question arises when discussing the immoral things that this one man did to humanity and that is was Hitler born with the mindset that he had to kill off all those innocent people or was he 100 percent in control of choosing his destiny? This brings up a very controversial issue as many believe that man has the freedom to do what he pleases and to define himself by his own…

The Protestant Reformation proved to be a major effect on Europe during the 15th century. The Reformation began in Germany from 1517 to 1648. During this time, reformation was occurring throughout all Europe and traditional medieval values disintegrating away. Traditionally, in the 14th century the Church 's power and authority were never questioned. Martin Luther, a catholic monk saw many problems with the Roman Catholic church during the height of it’s power, such as John Tetzel selling…

exploring the background in which it was written. This will be followed by looking closely at the text of the pamphlet “On Images” and the epigraph within it, and discuss to what degree it challenged authority. It will consider the reason the pamphlet was written and if it achieved what it set out to. To conclude, this essay will look at the impact of Reformation developments and the authority of images in general. To put the pamphlet into the context of the period, it was written in. The…

I had recently come upon a quote from an anonymous person that read, “I am a hopeless romantic, living in a hook up world”. These words sum up my thoughts on dating in today’s society to a T. The use of technology to date or in other words, “to hook up” has left me feeling very unfulfilled. The disapproval on my Grandmother’s face when I explain to her that a guy I think is cute has messaged me on Twitter or Tinder to “hang out” is a good representation of how I feel as well. When she tells me…

The Protestant Reformation is often indicated as just the Reformation. It was the major disagreement within Western Christianity started by Martin Luther. Martin Luther wrote his 95 Theses in hopes of just starting a debate between the church, but ended up setting the religious world aflame. In his document, he started by criticizing the selling of indulgence, demanding that the pope had no authority over purgatory and that the Catholic doctrine of the merits of the saints had no foundation in…

evidence for the success or failure of a Lutheran city and the new style of penance. The way each author cites the sources also varies; Dixon uses in text parenthetical citations, with a bibliography at the end of the book (Dixon 191), while Rittgers used endnotes and footnotes, then consolidated them in a chronological list by chapter (Rittgers 221) between the conclusion and the bibliography. Dixon concludes The Reformation in Germany with the historiography of the Reformation from the 16th…