W.E.B Du Bois was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard. This lead to him being one of the people who helped establish the NAACP.
explore the Atlantic and pacific Oceans.
The European desire to find ocean routes to East Asia/the Indies
Interest in spices
New advances in knowledge and technology
Europeans wanted to break the control that Muslims and Italians had on trade routes.
New opportunities for knowledge and wealth
To spread Christianity
John Calvin was a famous French theologian and a major leader of the Protestant Reformation. He helped popularize the belief in the sovereignty of God in all areas of life, as well as the doctrine of predestination. The theological approach advanced by Calvin has come to be known as 'Calvinism.'
John Muir influenced Theodore Roosevelt to set aside 100 million acres as federal forests :)
In Europe in 1918, influenza spread through Spain, France, Great Britain and Italy, causing havoc with military operations during the First World War. The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed more than 50 million people worldwide. In addition, its socioeconomic consequences were huge. It primarily affected Spain, Serbia, Mexico and Great Britain, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths. It was less severe than the second wave but still much more deadly than the initial first wave.