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Jan 1, 1441
Beginning of Portuguese Slave Trade
This was the beginning of the brutal slave trade in the Atlantic. Slaves would be kidnapped and traded from Africa and then brought to Europe or the Americas to work. Most slaves went were taken by the Portuguese to Brazil where they would work in the sugar plantations. This is important because of the devastating effects it had on the African population and the culture it created in the Americas, especially in Brazil. -
Jan 1, 1442
Christopher Columbus voyage
Christopher Columbus was looking for a trading route to Asia through the west. He did not know where he was going, but he went anyways. King and queen of Spain fund his voyage and he finds the Caribbean word of his travels spread and soon all European powers are sailing to America. This is so important because of the immense exchange of plants, animals, culture, disease, and people. -
Jan 1, 1449
Treaty of Tordesillas
This was a treaty that Spain and Portugal signed and it split the world along an imaginary line Spain could not take any land west of this line and Portugal got the land to the east of the -
Period: Jan 1, 1450 to
1450 - 1750
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Jan 1, 1451
Reign of Mehmed the Conqueror
Meh med the Conqueror was another Ottoman Emperor,who would capture Constantinople which would become the capital. -
Jan 1, 1460
prince Henry
Prince Henry was from Portugal and was extremely important because of the series of voyages he would sponsor down the West African coast. Merchants would establish trading posts in important spots and would come to exchange European goods for gold and slaves. -
Jan 1, 1464
Songhay Empire
This empire, replacing Mali, was the ruling power in west Africa, Sunni Ali was the emperor where they grew the most. And in 1591 they fall to a Moroccan army because of subject revolts. -
Jan 1, 1464
Reign of Sunni Ali
Sunni Ali was a Songhay ruler who would conquer and increase the size of the empire, gain wealth and control the central Niger valley. He had a complex administrative and military system that would help him keep his power -
Jan 1, 1481
Ottoman Dynasty
The founder of this dynasty was Osman Bey who was chief of semi-nomadic religious Turks. They expanded through religious war and had great military success. -
Jan 1, 1483
Martin Luther
Martin Luther was a German monk obsessed with the idea of salvation and was angry at the way the Roman church was abusing their power. He attacked and wrote about the sale of indulgences and overall corruption of the Church and gained a following. He was so important because he basically started the Protestant Reformation and so many people, most importantly German princes, agreed with him. -
Jan 1, 1488
Bartolomeu Dias's voyage into the Indian Ocean
Portuguese explorer who went from Portugal and rounded the Cape of Good Hope to enter into the Indian Ocean. Although he was not able to explore an further it is important because he had opened up a route to India, China and islands in southeast Asia all full of resources. -
Jan 1, 1501
Safavid Dynasty
One of the Islamic (Shiite) Empires they were important because they connected India and Europe and provided a link to the Silk Road for the time -
Jan 1, 1517
95 these
the 95 these was written by martin Luther and he nailed this paper on the front door of the church and it basically said everything wrong they did -
Jan 1, 1519
Spanish Conquest of Mexico
Hernan Cortes led 450 soldiers to Mexico in search of gold. The first place they found was the Aztec capital on Lake Texcoco after some fighting they were able to get the Aztec to surrender. Steel swords, muskets, cannons, horses, disease, and alliances -
Jan 1, 1520
Reign of Suleyman the Magnificent
Also a ruler of the Ottoman Empire who would continue the expansion of the Empire His two biggest and most important feats were that he would greatly expand into southwest Asia and central Europe -
Jan 1, 1540
Foundation of Society of Jesus
The Society of Jesus was founded by St. Ignatius Loyola a nobleman and soldier who after an injury turned to religion. It was established to extend the boundaries and influence of the new Reformed Roman Church -
Jan 1, 1545
Council of Trent
This was an assembly of bishops, cardinals, and other important church authorities who would meet to discuss reform and issues of doctrine -
Jan 1, 1556
Reign of Akbar
Akbar was a terrific, charismatic, absolutist leader of the Mughal Empire. Under him there was a tight centralized government, expansion, religious tolerance/diversity, and saw himself as a ruler for all people of India. -
Jan 1, 1562
Mughal Dynasty
The Mughal Dynasty in India was started by Babbar “the elephant” but the leader who truly brought it to its grandeur was Akbar -
Jan 1, 1564
John Calvin
He was a French lawyer who converted to Protestantism. He was important because he started Calvinism which would use missionaries to spread their protestant ideas. -
Jan 1, 1564
Galileo Galilei
He was using the recently invented telescope towards the sky was able to discover and see new things about space.. He also helped and understood to an extent the law of inertia before its time. All of this is important because it was a big part of the scientific revolution in that it was such a change from the Ptolemaic ideas of the time. -
Jan 1, 1572
Reign of Emperor Wanli
Emperor Wanli reigned during the Ming Dynasty and is important because he is a good example of emperors ignoring government business while enjoying themselves. -
Spanish Armada
This was a naval fleet sent by King Philip II of Spain to the Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain. King Philip who was Catholic was mad at Queen Elizabeth for being a Protestant and wanted England to return to its Catholic ways, however it didn’t work. -
Tokugawa Shogunate
This was established under Tokugawa Ieyasu and he was the first shogun. He got rid any threatening power the daimyo and samurai had in order to restore stability and increase prosperity throughout Japan. -
Death of Queen Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, the childless Elizabeth was the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty -
Thirty Years' War
A war that started out as a Bohemian religious conflict (Protestant vs. Catholic.) and escalated into a giant war that involved all the major powers at the time. -
John Locke
Philosopher who was interested in the natural laws of politics. He disagreed with divine-right theories that gave way to absolute monarchies and fought for constitutional government where the people had a voice. -
Qing Dynasty
The Qing Dynasty was started by the Manchus from the north and they ruled with a lot of the same policies as the early Ming dynasty. They had a centralized government with rigid civil service exams. -
Peace of Westphalia
Peace of Westphalia marked the end of the Thirty Years’ War. This treaty forever made Europe a land of competing, independent, sovereign, states. Religious unity had forever come to an end in Europe. -
Establishment of 1st Colony in Australia
The first colony to be established in Australia, by the British, was a penal colony. It brought 1000 passengers and 80% of them were convicts and for a long time afterward the criminals outnumbered the not-criminals. -
Seven Years' War
The Seven Years War was a war that originally started against France when he was becoming to strong in Europe and would later turn into an even larger affair involving France, Austria, and Russia against Britain and Prussia