Period 4 Timeline By marychavez Period: 1500 to 1800 The Slave Trade and Its Effect on Gender Roles in Africa 1519 Epidemic Smallpox in the Aztec Empire 1521 Conquest of the Philippines by Spain 1600 Founding of the English East India Company 1600 Floating Worlds in the Tokugawa Shogunate 1600 Foot Binding in the Ming and Qing Dynasties 1630 Japanese Strict Control Over Foreign Relations 1652 Dutch Trading Posts and Settlement in South Africa 1680 The Pueblo Revolt in Northern Mexico 1749 Emilie du Chatelet’s Translation of Principia Mathematica