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Period: 1450 to 1480
Russia over throws Mongol rule in Moscow
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1453
Ottomans seize Constantinople
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Period: 1464 to
Songhai Empire
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1469
Sikhism begins
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1491
Reconquista of Spain
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1492
Columbus reached America
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1497
Portugal begins colonizing the Americas
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1498
Vasco de Gama reaches India
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Period: 1501 to
Safavid Empire
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1517
Beginning if Protestant Reformation
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Period: 1519 to 1521
Magellan and crew circumnavigate the World
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1521
Cortez conquers the Aztecs
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Period: 1526 to
Mughal Empire
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1534
Enslaved Africans begin to arrive in the Americas
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1534
France begins to colonize the Americas
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1543
First ideas of a heliocentric universe(Copernnicus)
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1545
Discovery of silver
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Period: 1550 to
Scientifc Revolution
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Period: 1556 to
Akbar the Great rules over Mughal Empire
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1571
Beginning of a global trade system
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1571
Founding of Manila
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British East India Company is founded
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Period: to
Tokugawa Shogunate
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British begin to colonize the Americas
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Period: to
30 years War
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Taj Mahal gets built
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Period: to
Rule of King Louis XIV
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Glorious Revolution
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Period: to
Peter the Great rules and westernizes Russia
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Period: to
The Enlightment