Chapter 15&16 Checkpoint

By JTXS
  • Apr 20, 1368

    The ming dynasty beginning

    Mongal dynasty in china was over thrown. The founder of the new dynasty took the title of Ming Hong Wu. This was the beginning of the Ming dynasty which lated until 1644.
  • Period: Apr 20, 1400 to

    empires

  • Apr 20, 1420

    The tomb for 13 Emperors

    The tomb for 13 emperors of the Ming Dynasty are built at Tienshou Mountain, NW of Beijing.
  • Apr 6, 1453

    Ottoman Empire

    Ottomans, led by Mehmed ll, lay seige to constinople.
  • Aug 26, 1526

    Ottoman Empire

    Won a major victory over Hungarians at Battle of Mohacs
  • Oct 26, 1529

    Ottoman Empire

    Ottomans are defeated at Vienna
  • The Founding of the Tokugawa Empire

    The Founding of the Tokugawa Empire
    Tokugawa Leyasu (1542-1616) founded the Shogunate in Edo (now modern day tokyo) in 1603 and the empire endured more than 260 years
  • Mogul Empire

    The mogul ruler Akbar was muslim, but he exercised tolerance toward hindu practices.
  • Japanese Art & Culture

    Japanese Art & Culture
    In the late 1630s, contact with the outside world was cut off through official prohibition of foreigners. In Japan’s self-imposed isolation, Art forms and cultural traditions of the past were revived and refined.
  • Mogul Empire

    Persian and indian cultures blended to create beautiful paintings and architecture.
  • the death

    The emperor of the ming dynasty commits suicide and the Ming Dynasty ends.
  • Mogul Empire

    British forces defeated the moguls at the battle of plassey. The british eventually ruled most of india.
  • The Boshin War

    The Boshin War
    The Boshin War (戊辰戦争 War of the Year of the Yang Earth Dragon), aka the Japanese Revolution, was a civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and those seeking to return political power to the Imperial Court.