REVIEW

Write the last two history cards and then complete the review work on pages 491-496.  Complete all the answers you know.  Go back to the lessons and re-read any information you do not know along with the context of that information, using these pages as study for the semester exam.  We will do further study and review in class on Friday.

The Ottoman Turks Take Constantinople         83
                        (1453)

A sultan of the Ottoman Turks, Mohammed II, arose to dominate the last Christian city yet unconquered by Islam.  In 1453, Mohammed II led the Ottoman Turks to conquer Constantinople, which they renamed Instanbul.  Great philosophers, artists, and scientists fled to western Europe when Constantinople fell; they played a key role in the next phase of His story, known as the Renaissance.


Johannes Gutenberg Invents The Printing Press        84
                          (1456)

The educated Johannes Gutenberg of Mainz, Germany, built a printing press with changeable letters to spell out a whole page of writing at one time.  He could print 200-300 pages in one day on smooth paper made from cotton.  In 1456, he and those with him completed 300 copies of Jerome's Latin Bible.  Soon afterwards, Wycliffe's followers, the Lollards, set up the first printing press in England to print the Bible in English.  Obviously, God was closing out the era of the Dark (or Middle) Ages with the rapid spread of His Light and truth.