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Jan 1, 1418
Prince Henry the Navigator
Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa.
Motives for exploration: converting Africans to Christianity, making contact with Christian rulers in Africa, and launching joint crusades with them against the Ottomans.
Explorations were concerned with Africa
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Period: Jan 1, 1418 to Dec 31, 1460
prince henry the navigator
Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa.
Motives for exploration: converting Africans to Christianity, making contact with Christian rulers in Africa, and launching joint crusades with them against the Ottomans.
Explorations were concerned with Africa
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Mar 29, 1432
Reign of Mehmed the Conqueror
Born: 29 March 1432
Died: 3 May 1481
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
Created the fall of Constantinople.
Brought the Byzantine Empire to an end. -
Period: Mar 29, 1432 to May 3, 1481
Reign of Mehmed the Conqueror
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Jan 1, 1453
Ottoman Empire
Islamic state founded by Osman in north western Anatolia. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire was based at Istanbul.
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Period: Jan 1, 1453 to
Ottoman Empire
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Jan 1, 1464
Reign of Sunni Ali
First king of the Songhai Empire, 15th ruler of the Sonni Dynasty. -
Jan 1, 1464
Songhai Empire
The Muslim Songhai Empire stretched from the Atlantic to the land of the Hausa and was a major player in the trans-Saharan trade.
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Period: Jan 1, 1464 to Dec 31, 1492
Reign of Sunni Ali
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Period: Jan 1, 1464 to
Songhai Empire
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Period: Jan 1, 1466 to Dec 31, 1520
Moctezuma
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Jan 1, 1482
Beginning of Portuguese slave trade
Africans were ready to negotiate with the royal representative of Portugal.
In the early 16th century, as the demand for slaves for the Portuguese sugar plantations on the nearby island of Sao Tome grew, the king raised the price of slaves and he imposed restrictions that limited their sale. -
Jan 1, 1483
Martin Luther
Luther was a German monk
Luther objected to the way the new indulgences were preached.
Luther began the movement known as the Protestant Reformation.
Luther insisted that the only way to salvation was through faith alone.
Luther's ideas were able to travel easier thanks to the printing press.
He wrote the 95 theses.
Luther was excommunicated by Pope Leo X
Protestants rejected the medieval tradition of celibate priests and nuns. -
Period: Jan 1, 1483 to Dec 31, 1546
Martin Luther
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Jan 1, 1488
Dia's voyage into Indian Ocean
Bartolomeu Dias (1450-1500): Portuguese explorer who in the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean.
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Period: Jan 1, 1488 to Dec 31, 1488
Dias' Voyage into Indian Voyage
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Jan 1, 1492
Columbus's First Voyage
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506): Genoese mariner who in the service of Spain led expeditions across the Atlantic reestablishing contact between the peoples of the Americas and the Old World and opening the way to Spanish conquest and colonization. -
Jan 1, 1492
Columbian Exchange
Started right after Columbus's firts voyage.
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the World following Columbus's voyages.
The Columbian Exchange altered American enviornments.
The New World's useful stable crops had enriched the agricultures of Europe, Asia, and Africa.
The Old World diseases that enteredd the Americas devastated Indigenous populations.
The population changes weakend the native people's resistance. -
Period: Aug 3, 1492 to Oct 1, 1492
Columbus's First Voyage
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Jan 1, 1500
Russian Empire
Mongol power dissolved
Moscow became new major city
Major state = Muscovy (absorbed Kiev and Novgorod)
-Conquered Khanates of Kazan, Astrakhan, and northern Caucasus Region
Ivan IV “The Terrible” became Czar (1543-1584)
First person to be crowned czar.
He did not trust anyone.
Many fits of rage (temper).
Russian expansion – eastward, Siberia
Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689):
Chinese-Russian Agreement
Russian lands west of Mongolia recognized -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Russian Empire
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Jan 1, 1502
Safavid Empire
Iranian Kingdom established by Ismail Safavi, who declared Iran a Shi'ite state. -
Jan 1, 1502
Moctezuma
Last Aztec emperor, overthrown by the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes.
Emperor of the Aztecs, the capital of Tenochtitlan.
Memorable because he was ruling during the time that the Spanish took over. He was made a prisoner in his own palace. -
Period: Jan 1, 1502 to
Safavid Empire
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Jan 1, 1509
John Calvin
French lawyer
Calvin converted to Protestant Christianity.
Calvin denied that even human faith could merit salvation, he believed that salvation was a gift God gave to those He predestined for it.
Calvanists displaced simplicity in dress, life, and worship. -
Period: Jan 1, 1509 to Dec 31, 1564
John Calvin
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Jan 1, 1519
Spanish conquest of Mexico
Early settlers from Spain created colonial societies based on the customs of their homelands.
Established a Catholic society.
Hernan Cortes (1485-1547) conquered the Aztecs. The Aztecs trsuted him because they believed Cortes was the legendary ruler Quetzalcoatl.
The Spanish successful capture of Tenochtitlan in 1521 was facilitated by the spread of smallpox. After the capital fell, the conquistadors took over other parts of Mexico. -
Period: Jan 1, 1519 to Dec 31, 1521
Spanish Conquest of Mexico
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Jan 1, 1520
Reign of Suleyman the Magnificent
The most illustrious sultan of the Ottoman Empire; also known as Suleiman Kanuni, "The Lawgiver." He significantly expandded the empire in the Balkans and eastern Mediterrarean.
Commanded the greatest Ottoman assault on Christian Europe. -
Period: Jan 1, 1520 to Dec 31, 1566
Reign of Suleyman the Magnificent
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Jan 1, 1526
Mughal Dynasty
Muslim state exercising domination over most of India in the 16th and 17th centuries.
A land of Hindus ruled by a Muslim minority.
Babur- the founder of the Empire
Babur invaded from Central Asia and defeated the last Muslim sultan of Delhi at the Battle of Panipat in 1526.
Trading economy was based on cotton cloth.
The Mughal Empire inherited from both the Islmaic caliphate and the Mongols. -
Period: Jan 1, 1526 to
Mughal Dynasty
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Jan 1, 1545
Council of Trent
Northern Italy
They distinguished proper Catholic doctrines from Protestant "errors".
Started the Catholic Reformation.
The council reaffirmed the supremacy of the pope.
The Society of Jesus, or "Jesuits", created by Ignatious of Loyola, helped stem the Protstant tide and win back adherents by their teaching and preaching. -
Period: Jan 1, 1545 to Dec 31, 1563
Council of Trent
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Jan 1, 1556
Reign of Akbar
Sultan of the Mughal Empire in India.
Babur's grandson
Established the central administration of the Mughal Empire.
India enjoyed great prosperity under Akbar's rule.
Akbar married a Rajput princess and signaled his desire for Muslim-Hindu reconcilation. -
Period: Jan 1, 1556 to
Reign of Akbar
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Jan 1, 1564
Galileo Galilie
Italian
Part of the Scientific Revolution
1609 he built a telescope that was able to magnify distant objects thirty times beyond the power of the naked eye.
In The Starry Messenger(1610) Galilei reported that the moon had mountains and valleys, that other planets had their own moons, and that the sun had spots.
Theorie's challenged the ideas of biblical authorities. -
Period: Jan 1, 1564 to
Galileo Galilei
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Tokugawa Shogunate
A new military government
Established by Tokugawa Ieyasu
Place: Japan
Gave Japan more political unity than the islands had seen in centuries. -
Period: to
Tokugawa Shogunate
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Thirty Year's War
Germany
German Protestant vs. Holy Roman Empeor
Resolved by the Treaty of WestPhalia in 1648
Caused long-lasting depopulation and economic decline in much of the Holy Roman Empire.
The wars produced great improvements in their weapondry that arguably made them the most powerful in the world. -
Period: to
Thirty Year's War
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John Locke
English Political Philosopher
Disputed monarchial claims to absolute authority by divine right.
He argued rulers derived their authority from the consent of the governed and, like everyone else they were subjected to the law.
He wrote this in his influential Second Treatise of Civil Government. -
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John Locke
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Manchus Empire
The Manchus took over the Chinese empires, creating the Qing dynasty.
They were of mixed Mongolian, Korean, Chinese and Jurchen descent. -
Qing Empire
The Empire was established in China by Manchus who overthrrew the Ming Empire in 1644.
The last imperial dynasty of China.
Qing emperors adopted the doctrine of Confucianism as their official religion. -
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Qing Dynasty
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Period: to
Manchus Empire
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England's Glorious Revolution
The events of the revolution were bloodless and the revolution settlement established the supremacy of parliament over the crown, setting Britain on the path towards constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy. -
Period: to
England's Glorious Revolution
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Peter the Great
Russian tsar
He introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite, moving the capital from Moscow to the new city of St. Petersburg. -
Period: to
Peter the Great
