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Period: Apr 18, 1394 to Apr 18, 1460
Henry the Navigator
The junior prince of the Kingdom of Portugal, he was responsible for maritime trade with other countries and European exploration. A very important figure in the Portugese empire. -
Period: Apr 18, 1451 to Apr 18, 1506
Christopher Columbus
His voyages led to the awareness of the American Continents. Columbus was a well known explorer, colonizer, and navigator from the Republic of Genoa. -
Period: Apr 18, 1460 to Apr 18, 1524
Vasco de Gama
A Portugese explorer, one of the best ones from his time. He was in charge of the ship that was the first to sail from Europe to India. He also governed Portugese India for awhile during his life. -
Period: Apr 18, 1471 to Apr 18, 1541
Francisco Pizarro
Born in a town called Trujillo. Pizarro was a spanish conquistador who, conquered the Incan Empire, and founder of Lima, the modern-day capital of the Republic of Peru. -
Period: Apr 18, 1480 to Apr 18, 1521
Ferdinand Magellan
A portugese explorer, who served King Charles I of Spain in search of a westward route of the Spice Islands in Indonesia. His expedition from 1519 to 1522 became the first to cross from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. -
Period: Apr 29, 1483 to Apr 29, 1530
Babur
Emperor and founder of the Mughal dynasty of India from 1526 to 1530. His name means tiger and he was a lover of nature. -
Period: Apr 18, 1485 to Apr 5, 1547
Hernan Cortes
Born from a family of lesser nobility, Cortes was a spanish conquistador. He led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec empire and caused parts of Mexico to be ruled by the King of Castile. -
Apr 22, 1492
Columbian Exchange
Exchange of animals, plants, culture, slaves, diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western hemispheres. This caused for much ecological evolution. -
Period: Apr 22, 1502 to
Safavid Empire
An Iranian kingdom established by
Ismail Safavi, who declared Iran a Shi’ite state. -
Period: Apr 18, 1517 to
Protestant Reformation
The attempt to reform the Catholic church which later led to the establishment of Protestantism. After many wars and angered Pope's -
Period: Apr 22, 1526 to
Mughal Empire
A Muslim state who was in control of
over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth
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Period: Apr 22, 1552 to
Matteo Ricci
An Italian Jesuit priest, and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China Mission. He is considered the "servant of God" -
Period: Apr 21, 1564 to
Galileo Galilei
An Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. He was very important in the scientific revolution. He created the telescope and found many astronomical observations. -
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Scientific Revolution
A period when new ideas in physics, anatomy, biology and chemistry led to rejection of doctrines. Religion, superstition, and fear were replaced by reason and knowledge. -
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Triangle trade
Trade between 3 regions. The most popular being the transatlantic slave trade which carried slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between West Africa, England and northern colonies of British North America. -
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Tokugawa Shogunate
The last of the three chinese shogunates. -
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Thirty Years war
Multiple wars caused by
arguments between Protestants and Catholics and political struggles between the Holy Roman Empire and other powers, which ended with the Peace of Westphalia. -
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Qing Dynasty
The last ruling dynasty of China. They established the empire of the empire of the great Qing -
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Peter the Great
Ruler of Russia and later the Russian Empire from 1682 until his death in 1725. Modernized and expanded the Russian Empire into a major European power. -
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Enlightenment
A movement in eighteenthcentury
Europe when people realized they could reform society by making laws that were both social and scientific. -
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Catherine the Great
Reigned as empress of Russia from 1762 to her death in 1796. Major successes in foreign policy, moderization, and administration lead Russian Empire to become very strong. -
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French-Indian War
Wars between France and Britain to control colonial territory. Ended with the treaty of paris, which resulted in France having to give up their territory. -
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Louis XVI
He was king of France from 1791 to 1792. He was accused of high treason and later executed during the French Revolution. Only king ever to be executed. -
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Marie Antoinette
She became Queen of France when her husband assumed the throne from 1774 to 1792. She was later executed and charged of treason a long with her husband. -
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Napoleon
A military and political leader towards the end of the French Revolution. He was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815. Known for his Napoleonic Wars. -
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American Revolution
When 13 colonies broke apart from the British control, to be come the United States. -
Storming of the Bastille
The storming of the Bastille was an event that partly triggered the French Revolution. The Bastille represented royal authority in Paris. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
A very important document from the French Revolution, it establishes all rights for french citizens -
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French Revolution
The monarchy that had ruled France for three years, French society went under huge transformation. Things like religous privileges were taken away. -
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Haitian Revolution
A defining moment in the history of Africans in the New World, which eliminated slavery and founded the Haitian republic. -
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Congress of Vienna
A conference to settle the issues caused from the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the Holy Roman Empire made between ambassadors of European States. -
Waterloo
The final defeat of Napoleon and the French forces