The development of a written language in ancient Egypt allowed for a society to form where people could much easier communicate and pass on information, allowing for more trading, information, etc
<span>This was confirmed by the treaty of tortesillas. The treaty was signed in 1494. It had the goal of resolving conflicts between explorers, like Christopher Columbus, and other merchants, over the lands they discovered. The pope got to decide what country got what territory, which showed that the papacy was relevant in the colonization of the new world.</span>
The Allied victory in North Africa destroyed or neutralized nearly 900,000 German and Italian troops, opened a second front against the Axis, permitted the invasion of Sicily and the Italian mainland in the summer of 1943, and removed the Axis threat to the oilfields of the Middle East and to British supply lines to ...
Before the Protestant Reformation, the Roman Catholic Church was the ultimate authority regarding all thought and it was considered infallible. When Martin Luther questioned the authority of the church it cast doubts on its infallibility. This paved the way for alternative thinking.