from exploration to independance

By caroline.kubitza
  • Period: 1800 BCE to 800

    The Maya

    indigenous people of Mexico and Central America, with lands comprising modern-day Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Tabasco, and Chiapas in Mexico and southward through Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, and Honduras.
  • Period: 1200 BCE to 600 BCE

    The Omlecs

    first major civilization in Mexico, located near the gulf
  • 1095

    1095 CE Pope Urban calls for Crusades in the Holy Land

    pope sends crusades to the holy land
  • 1200

    Europe is a Farming economy

    Europeans start farming
  • Period: 1200 to 1521

    The Aztec

    known for agriculture, cultivating all available land, introducing irrigation, located in central and south america
  • 1217

    1271 CE Marco Polo travels to the East

    travels to East Asia and visits the leader of Mongol leader Kublai Khan
  • 1289

    1289 CE Crusades end

    the crusades end after their failed attempt to take over the holy land
  • 1293

    1293 CE Polos journey home

    polo travels home after traveling from 1271 to 1295
  • 1298

    1298 CE Polo imprisoned and writes his book

    polo get caught in war and is imprisoned, while in prison he met a writer from Pisa and convinced him to write about his journey
  • 1300

    1300-1600 The Renaissance

    rebirth to art and learning
  • Period: 1400 to 1532

    The Inca

    originally a small tribe in the southern highlands of Peru; specialized in engineering
  • 1415

    1415 Capture of Fortress of Ceuta

    Portuguese capture the fortress of Ceuta to hopefully build a new gold market
  • 1419

    1419 Discovery of the Madeira Islands

    Portugal discovers the Madeira Islands
  • 1427

    1427- Azores Islands

    the Azores Islands were discovered by Portugal
  • 1434

    1434- Voyage around Cape

    Portuguese successfully traveled around the Africa cape
  • 1440

    1440 printing press

    the printing press was invented to make it easier to mail stuff
  • 1469

    1469- Unified catholic spain

    gained a commercial advantage over Portugal
  • 1488

    1488- Dias lead Portuguese to India

    after henry's death, dias lead the Portuguese to India around the cape of good hope
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Oct. 12, 1492- Colombus made landfall at hispanola

    Landed in prest day Dominican republic
  • 1519

    Cortes invades the Aztec

    Cortes invades the Aztec
    Cortés invaded Mexico in 1519 and conquered the Aztec Empire. Hernán Cortés was a Spanish conquistador, or conqueror, best remembered for conquering the Aztec empire in 1521
  • 1529

    Pizarro Invades the Inca

    Pizarro Invades the Inca
    the Spanish explorer and conquistador springs a trap on the Incan emperor
  • 1532

    The Inca fall under Pizarro

    The Inca fall under Pizarro
    the Inca Empire was in a civil war that had decimated the population and divided the people's loyalties

  • Thomas Hobbes writes The Leviathan

    Thomas Hobbes writes The Leviathan
    view of man- fair and equal and optimistic
    view of government- unfair and pessimistic

  • John Locke writes The Second Treatise on Government

    John Locke writes The Second Treatise on Government
    the point is that man is free and does not have to serve or be under a ruler/king/unfair government and should be people run and everyone should have a voice- {freedom in speech}

  • The United States declares Independence

    The United States declares Independence
    an independent nation, the American colonists were able to confirm an official alliance with the Government of France and obtain French assistance in the war against Great Britain. ... Independence would be necessary, however, before French officials would consider the possibility of an alliance.

  • France writes the Declaration of the Rights of Man

    France writes the Declaration of the Rights of Man
    the French National Constituent Assembly issued the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen (Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen) which defined individual and collective rights at the time of the French Revolution.

  • Haiti gains independence

    Haiti gains independence
    the rebels scored a major victory against the French force there, and on November 9, 1803, colonial authorities surrendered. In 1804, General Dessalines assumed dictatorial power, and Haiti became the second independent nation in the Americas

  • Bolivar and his soldiers begin Venezuela’s fight for independence

    Bolivar and his soldiers begin Venezuela’s fight for independence
    seven of the ten provinces of the Captaincy General of Venezuela declared their independence in the Venezuelan Declaration of Independence. The First Republic of Venezuela was lost in 1812 following the 1812 Caracas earthquake and the 1812 Battle of La Victoria.

  • Bolivar’s Gran Columbia gains its independence

    Bolivar’s Gran Columbia gains its independence
    first governments did not fully achieve independence, but their main goal was to separate from Bonaparte's government. Individuals who were set on independence brought the Gran Colombian Revolution upon them. ... Simon Bolivar confirmed independence in the Republic of Gran Colombia

  • Jose de San Martin frees Peru from Spain

    Jose de San Martin frees Peru from Spain
    liberated Peru and proclaimed its independence from Spain on 28 July 1821. The two leading figures of the South American wars of independence were Simon Bolivar in the north and José de San Martín in the south

  • Mexico gains independence

    Mexico gains independence
    Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Catholic priest, launched the Mexican War of Independence with the issuing of his Grito de Dolores, or “Cry of Dolores"