In 1492, Christopher Columbus, supported by the Spanish government, undertook a voyage to find a new route to Asia and inadvertently encountered “new” lands in the Americas full of long established communities and cultures. Other European countries quickly followed suit and began to explore and invade the New World.
Some of the characteristics of renaissance peope would inclue a love for learning and the fine arts. Italy's cities most likely became the birthplace of the renaissance becuase it had many busltling cities that had a lot of trade, so ideas were spread that way. The last question would be that some church leaders and wealthy people were for the arts and helped sponsor it but other church leaders were against it and tried to censor people even burning people at the stake becuase they beleieved the earth was round, which was considered hereticla at the time.
France use to control Canada. Not anymore I believe as Canada is its own independent nation :)
The Cuban Missile Crisis has become one of the critical points in the history of the Cold War. With Soviet nuclear warheads already positioned to strike the America, the world feared that it could be the brink of a third world war. Both superpowers thought house close could be thus, communications between Washington and Moscow were increased.