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Mar 4, 1394
Henry the Navigator
A Portugal Prince, and explorer. Is accredited with founding European exploration and the founding of maritime trade. -
Oct 31, 1451
Columbus
Explorer that traveled in the name of Spain for Gold, God, and Glory, with the hopes of finding a new land. -
Jan 1, 1469
da Gama
Portugese Explorer. Led the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India. -
Jan 1, 1471
Pizarro
Spanish conquistador. Founder of Lima. Conquered the Inca Empire. -
Jan 1, 1482
Creation of Colonies in the New World
Following Christopher Columbus' exploration of North America, the first Spanish colony is founded on American grounds, and the creation of colonies in the new world begins. Over the next 400 years more colonies are created (until 1898). -
Jan 1, 1485
Cortes
Spanish Conquistador. Took over many natives in the new world for his country, dpreading havic and death. -
Jan 1, 1492
Columbian Exchange
The spread of cultural, agricultural, and detrimental traits from the Eastern Continents to the Western Continents. Diseases spread from the old world to the new world, plants and domesticated animals came to the new world, and the culture of the Europeans travel onboard explorers' ships to the new land, while the Europeans learned Indian techniques. -
Jan 1, 1500
Triangle Trade
Approx. beginning of the trade between North America, Europe, and Africa. The trade benifitted all sides by supplying slaves from Africa to North America and Europe, raw goods from N. America to Europe, and finished products from Europe to Africa and N. America. -
Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Safavid Empire
Persian empire in Iran. "One of the greatest Persian Empires...." Overall, helped to establish Iranian identiy and create a unified state in the region. Religion: Shi'a Muslim. -
Jan 1, 1517
Protestant Reformation
Outrage over currupt practices of the Catholic Church leads to demand of reform, and, eventually, the split between Protestants and Catholics. -
Jan 1, 1519
Magellan
Portugese Explorer. Was the first to travel around the world. -
Period: Apr 18, 1526 to
Mughal Empire
Empire that ruled over the majority of the Indian subcontinent and spread Persian culture throughout Asia. Classical Empire that made many cultural feats of architecture, liturature, and art, influential in Asia. -
Apr 30, 1526
Babur
Military-based Munhal Emperor of India, and desendent of Timur. He laid the basis for the Mughal Empire in modern-day Afganistan, then ruled. -
Jan 1, 1543
Scientific Revolution
Movement of the sciences. Period of advancement of many techniques and solutions to scientific problems and invention. -
Oct 6, 1552
Matteo Ricci
A christian misssionary who was allowed into China in a time of limited interaction with the outside world, who spread Christianity to the peoples of China. -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo
Italian big shot (philosipher, scientist, etc.) who played a role in the scientific revolution and made advancement in astrology, physics, and science. -
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Tokugawa Shogunate
The feudal regime of Japan in which shoguns ruled. -
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30 Years War
War caused by conflicts between the Catholics and Protestants of the Holy Roman Empire. -
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Qing Dynasty
Last dynasty of China, in which cultural intigration of the Chinese was included and the Mandate of Heaven began. -
Peter the Great
Russian ruler who modernized Russia by adapting Western ideas into Russia. -
Enlightenment
Age of spiritual, philiosophical, and cultural revolution and revilation in Europe. Counterpart to the Scientific Revolution. -
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French-Indian War
War between Great Britian and France in North America over colonies. Indians were hired by the French to aid them in the fighting. -
Catherine the Great
Russian ruler who continued Peter the Greats ideas of modernizing Russia by using Western ideas, and expanded Russia while in power. -
American Revolution
The colonies of N. America bind together and oppose British rule and taxes to acquire freedom. -
French Revolution
The revolution that took place in France as a result of peasent unrest at the poor economic conditions and anger at the monarchy and aristocracy. -
Storming of the Bastille
The storming of a military base and prision in the French Revolution by angered peasents, which represented the overtaking of aristocratic rule. A major point of the French Revolution. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
An important document of the French Revolution outlining civil rights, and constitution for the French. -
Haitian Revolution
Slave revolution against French rule and movements for freedom from the French. Haitians won, and estb. the Republic of Haiti. -
King Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette
Overthrown rulers of the French during the French Revolution. -
Napoleon
French leader and revolutionary who sought to spread his rule throughout Europe, Russia, and some parts of Latin America. -
Congress of Vienna
A congress of European rulers who met to discuss Napoleon's terms of surrender and other various issues of Europe at the time. -
Battle of Waterloo
The french empire, under Napoleon, fought and lost again the Seventh Coilition and lost, resulting in the end of Napoleons reign.
