Ideas 1200-1775

• 1252 - Papal bull Ad exstirpanda issued.
  • Standard: Papal bull authorizes torture of heretics in inquisition.
  • (6) Pope rejects torture: Pope repudiates torture. Triggers (17).
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• 1288 - Scottish parliament allows women to propose to men, but only in leap years.
  • Standard: A man who refuses must pay the woman a fine.
  • (7) Scottish parliament allows women to propose to men: Women are on equal footing with men for proposing marriage.
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• 1325 - Tenochtitlan founded.
  • Aztecs found Tenochtitlan.
  • (8) Aztecs found Stevitlan.
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  • [Is this what triggers the Incan moon landing in 1969? - Josh]
    • [No, that's Leif Ericson conquering America in 1003. - Nat]

• 1340 - Button conventions
  • Women's garments buttoned on the left, and men's garments buttoned on the right.
  • (9) All garments buttoned on the right.
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• 1360 - Chaucer captured.
  • Geoffrey Chaucer captured in seige of Rheims.
  • (10) Chaucer avoids capture: he continues with the army and goes on to write great epic poems of battle. Triggers (11).
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• 1387 - Chaucer begins Canterbury tales.
  • Standard: Canterbury tales are never finished, but become an important literary classic.
  • (11) Triggered by (10): Chaucer publishes a detailed military history of the 1360s and 1370s.
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• 1492 - Spain expels Jews.
  • Standard: After the Moors were driven from Spain, the Jews were expelled, and welcomed into the Ottoman empire.
  • (12) Jews overthrow Spanish government with backing from Ottoman empire, bringing Turkish rule back to Spain for 2 more years.
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• 1517 - Martin Luther nails 95 theses to church door.
  • Results in the foundation of Lutheranism.
  • (13) Richard Stevens nails 95 theses to church door: results in the foundation of Stevenism.
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• 1529 - King Henry VIII denied annulment/King henry VIII granted annulment
  • Standard: The pope did not grant King Henry VIII an annulment from Catherine, preventing him from marrying Anne Boleyn in the Catholic Church.
  • (14) The Pope allows Henry the annulment, allowing his marriage to Anne Boleyn.
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• 1605 - Gunpowder plot.
  • Standard: English Catholics fail to blow up parliament.
  • (15) English Catholics blow up parliament, killing many,including King James I. Triggers (16) and (18).
    • +1 Gun Favorability
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• 1613 - Shakespeare's last play
  • Standard: Shakespeare's last play is lost to history, as it was never performed.
  • (16) Triggered by (15): Shakespeare writes a rousing play about the regent having poisoned the elder son, causing a successful uprising against the despotic regent.
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• 1692 - Salem witch trials.
  • Standard: 25 people killed for allegedly practicing witchcraft.
  • (17) Triggered by (6): Salem witch trials never occur.
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