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1.1 Five overall largest mass killings of the 16th century

Note that the numbers given here are estimations

• Spanish conquests in the Americas, 20 million deaths (estimates vary widely, large parts of casualties died from desease)
• Persecution of Huguenots, 3 million deaths
• Persecution of the Waldensians, 1 million deaths
• Russo- Tatar war, 500.000 deaths
• Japanese Invasion of Korea, 260.000 deaths

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2 Significant people

• Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian painter and sculptor ( 1475 - 1564).
• Thomas More, English politician and author ( 1478 - 1535).
• Martin Luther, German religious reformer ( 1483 - 1546).
• Hernán Cortés, Spanish Conquistador ( 1485 - 1547).
• King Henry VIII of England, founder of Anglicanism ( 1491 - 1547).
• King Francis I of France, considered the first Renaissance monarch of his Kingdom ( 1494 - 1547).
• Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Conqueror and legal reformer ( 1494 - 1566).
• Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and the first to reign as King of Spain. Involved in almost constant conflict with France and the Ottoman Empire while promoting the Spanish colonization of the Americas ( 1500 - 1558).
• King Philip II of Spain, self-proclaimed leader of Counter-Reformation ( 1527 - 1598).
• Queen Elizabeth I of England, central figure of the Elizabethan era ( 1533 - 1603).
• Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author ( 1547 - 1616).
• King Henry IV of France and Navarre, ended the French Wars of Religion and reunited the kingdom under his command ( 1553 - 1610).
• William Shakespeare, English author ( 1564 - 1616).

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