Eurupean domination renaissance period

Miguel de Cervantes 's masterpiece Don Quixote is credited as the first Western novel. The Union of Krewo in , bringing two major changes in the history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: conversion to Catholicism and establishment of a dynastic union between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland marked both the greatest territorial expansion of the Grand Duchy and the defeat of the Teutonic Knights in the Battle of Grunwald in With the development of the printing press , new ideas spread throughout Europe and challenged traditional doctrines in science and theology. During this period corruption in the Catholic Church led to a sharp backlash in the Protestant Reformation. Roberts says that Napoleon fought 60 battles, losing only seven. Aulard in Arthur Tilley, ed. After Italy, Hungary was the first European country where the Renaissance appeared.

Thank you for your feedback. These included the increasing failure of the Roman Catholic Church and the Holy Roman Empire to provide a stable and unifying framework for the organization of spiritual and material life, the rise in importance of city-states and national monarchies, the development of national languages, and the breakup of the old feudal structures. Much of the medieval political centralization of France had been lost in the Hundred Years' War , and the Valois Dynasty's attempts at re-establishing control over the scattered political centres of the country were hindered by the Huguenot Wars or Wars of Religion.