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Period: May 10, 1420 to May 10, 1541
Explorers of the Unit
Henry the Navigator (Portugal): 1420 - 1460 Explored AfricaColumbus (Spain): 1492 - November 7, 1504 "found" the New World. South America.Cortes : 1504 - 1538 Conquered the Aztec EmpirePizarro: Feb. 13 1502 - Jun 26, 1541 Conquered the Inca EmpireMagellan: 1518 - 1525 Sailed the Atlantic to Pacific, but died before he could return home.Da Gama: 1497 - 1524 Sailed form Europe to India. -
Period: May 10, 1483 to May 10, 1531
Babur
Military adventurer from Central Asia who rose to power at Kabul.Essentially laid the basis for the Mughal Empire.Descendant of Timur through his father, and Genghis Khan through his mother.Responsible for the expansion of Persian cultural influence in the Indian subcontinent. -
Period: May 2, 1492 to
Colombian Exchange
The Columbian Exchange refers to the exchange of plants, animals, and diseases caused by contact between the Old World (Europe, Asia, and Africa) and the New World (the Americas). This biological exchange began with Columbus's arrival to America in 1492, and continued as Europeans began to explore and come into contact with people, plants, and animals in other parts of the Americas that had not yet been exposed to European diseases, plants, and animals, allowing an exchange to take place. -
Period: May 2, 1501 to
Safavid Empire
One of the most significant ruling dynasties of Iran. Ruled one of the greatest Persian empires since the Muslim conquest of Persia.Established the Twelver school of Shi'a Islam as the official religion of their empire, marking one of the most important turning points in Muslim history.They spread Shi'a Islam in major parts of the Caucasus and West Asia. -
Period: Apr 18, 1517 to
Protestant Reformation
The Protestant Reformation established Protestantism as a branch of Christianity after John Calvin, Martin Luther, and many other Protestants protested the traditional rituals establishe by the Catholic church during the 16th century. This wave of reform caused a batlle of religion between the mostly Protestant Northern Europeans, and the Ctholic Southerners. -
Period: May 10, 1526 to
Mughal Empire
An imperial power in South Asia that ruled a large portion of the Indian subcontinent.Descendants of the Timurids, a dynasty of Turco-Mongol ancestry.The Empire was marked by a highly centralized administration connecting the different regions.Declined rapidly, weakened by wars of succession, agrarian crises fueling local revolts, religious intolerance, rise of the Maratha, Durrani, and Sikh empires and British colonialism. -
Period: Apr 18, 1543 to
Scientific Revolution
The scientific Revolution was a series of changes in the structure of European thought beginning with the revolutionary publications by Nicolaus Copernicus and Andreas Vesalius in 1543. This idealism spread through Europe during the 18th century and ultimately achieved new ideas in Mathematics, chemistry, astronomy, and many other sects of the science of nature along with other sciences. -
Period: May 10, 1552 to
Matteo Ricci
A Jesuit scholar from Europe who journeyed to the Ming court. Served as a representative of Western efforts to bring Christianity to the East. He also was an example of missionaries' hopes to win the approval of Chinese emperors. The Ming were okay with it, but missionaries generally didn't get that many converts. -
Period: Apr 18, 1564 to
Galileo Galilei
He contributed to the ideology developed through the time of Enlightenment in Europe. He was a was an Italian physicist, a mathematician, an astronomer and a philosopher. His fondness of astronomy lead to further developement of the telescope and dedication to the theories of copernicanism, one being that the Sun being the center of the Universe. -
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Triangle Trade
Triangle trade is a historical term indicating trade among three ports or regions. Triangular trade usually evolves when a region has export commodities that are not required in the region from which its major imports come. Triangular trade thus provides a method for rectifying trade imbalances between the regions involved in the relationship. -
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Tokugawa Shogunate
Feudal regime in Japan, also called Edo period. Time when social hierarchy was at its most rigid. The introduction of Christianity and firearms to Japan prompted shoguns, fearful for a loss of their status, severely restricted foreign trade. -
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Thirty Years War
The Thirty Years War was a destructive war fought in Germany by most every country within European borders.This war was said to have been started because of Religious conflicts between the Protestants and the Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire and other political differences faced throughout the Empire. Some consequences of the war were include the decreasing population of the German states, Bohemia, and Italy, and the bankruptcy of most of the combatant powers. -
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Qing Dynasty
Empire established in China by Manchus who overthrew the Ming Empire in 1644. At various times the Qing also controlled Manchuria, Mongolia, Turkestan, andTibet. The last Qing emperor was overthrown in 1911. -
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Peter The Great
Russian tsar (r. 1689–1725). He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite, moving the capital from Moscow to the new city of St. Petersburg. -
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Age of Enlightenment
The Enlightenment was an era in Western Philosophy where reason was advocated as the primary source for legitimacy and authority. This train of thought coninued to affect areas of intellectuality, science and cultural life during the 18th century, allowing the expansion and change of the current morals and values of the avaerage westerner. -
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Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
They both ruled france from1774 to 1791 and was later suspended and arrested as part of the insurrection of the 10th of August during the French Revolution, he was tried by the National Convention, found guilty of high treason, and executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793 as "Citoyen Louis Capet". He is the only king of France ever to be executed. -
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Catherine The Great
She reigned as Empress of Russia from 9 July 1762 after the assassination of her husband, Peter III, just after the end of the Seven Years' War until her death. The Russian Empire expanded, improved its administration, and continued to modernize along Western European lines. Catherine's rule re-vitalized Russia, which grew stronger than ever and became recognized as one of the great powers of Europe. She succeded in foreign policy and oversaw sometimes brutal reprisals in the wake of rebellion. -
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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was a war fought in North America along the established colonies. It was fought between Great Britain and an alliance of French and Indian men over the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, the site of present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Between 1758 and 1760 the British military successfully penetrated the heartland of New France, allowing Britain to take a stand as dominant colonial power in the eastern half of North America. -
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Napolean
Napoleon Bonaparte was a military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution. -
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American Revolution
The 13 American Colonies joined together to fight against the British for their freedom. America won and became the United States of America, first under the Article of Confederation, and later the US Constitution. -
Storming of the Bastille
Bastille was captured, French Revolution begins. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is a fundamental document of the French Revolution, defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal. -
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French Revolution
The French Revolution was a period of radical social and political upheaval in French and European history. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years. French society underwent an epic transformation as feudal, aristocratic and religious privileges evaporated under a sustained assault from liberal political groups and the masses on the streets. Old ideas about hierarchy and tradition changed to ideas about citizenship. -
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Haitian Revolution
Conflict in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, which culminated in the elimination of slavery there and the founding of the Haitian republic -
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Congress of Vienna
Conference of all European countries to settle and address issues after French Revolution, Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. Redrew boundries. -
Battle at Waterloo
Napoleon was defeated in this battle (in Belgium) after he returned from his exile. Marked the end of Napoleon's reign as Emperor of France.