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This disovery from Bartholomueu Dias helps furture exporations.
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This journey led to the Discovery of the americas
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The Columbian Exchange happened during these years. Bringing new animals, plants, and deseases
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The well know Ottoman Empire starts taking its land and expanding it
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Horses were a big part of how groups of natives in America were able to travel and hunt better
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In 1521 an conquistador named Hernan Cortez took control of the Aztec Empire
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Tenochtitlan surrenders to the Spaniards and they then built Mexico city on that spot.
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Peru gets colonized by Spain
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This became a big part in the Ottoman Empire by becoming capitals
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One of the biggest changes in Europe was the start of capitalism. Capitalism is private owned businesses controlled by owners for profit.
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Thomas Hobbs wrote a book called Leviathan and it explained how people without government would be wild and agressive.
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The letter states that two groups should be in charge if the government fails. The Judicial branch and the Legislative branch as well as the people
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Thomas Savery an English inventor was the first to use the Steam engine. Even though he used it for something slightly different than the company's that utilized it.
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A new form of religion arrises. Deists believe in god but not organized religion due to them thinking its exploiting the members
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During this time in western Europe the use of machines over animal and human labor was starting to begin. This change will affect how businesses are able to produce and sell supplies.
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Capitalism is developed in America still being used today.
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One of the most infulential Tsars for Russias education is born
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Russia makes a settlement in Alaska in hopes to get resources such as seal skin.
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Material goods, wanting power, and just doing it because other countries are is exactly what happened during the expansion era.
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The first of many Alexanders becasome Tsar and starts making changes and miltiary descions shortly after
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Major conficts between countries arrose and part of lousiana was sold to the US
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He declares himself emporor of France and put his plans further into motion.
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An American inventor Robert Fulton began creating his first successful commercial steamboats. This would change the way goods were shipped and how water was traveled.
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Russia gains more land allowing them to gain power and strength in the world.
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Napoleon attempts to attack Russia but is stopped by Alexander I
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after a defeat in Russia and suffering a big loss Napoleon gives up the throne and is exiled to an island called Elba
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The communist manifesto was a way to describe and promote communism
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In india it is a taboo to kill pigs and cows so when a rumor came around saying that rifles had had some death of animals involved they didn't want anything to do with it and this lead to them being imprisoned by the british
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The freeing of the serfs was not like the abolishment of slavery they still had restrictions on them but they had more freedom
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The start to an awful ruling in the Congo one many want to forget and never want happening again.
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Roger Casement makes the journey to the congo. His doing this made him see the things King Leopold did and he was a big reason for his defeat.
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King Leopold's reign on the Congo is taking place, and the brutal way of rule was going on.
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World War 1 was a war with many trenches. These trenches led to unnatural looking landscapes from the war.
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These soldiers that helped the Europeans during the First World War didn’t serve their own country but served the Europeans
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Supports for war arrives in the form of 37,000 Chinese soldiers
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The start of communism began in Russia. This is important due to the fact that some other countries decided to pick it up.
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The second trip to the Americans was the one that made the colonization of the land called the US start.
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Winston Churchill casued the famine but blamed it on the Indians for "breeding like rabbits"
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Korea gets divided into two different parts acting as a domino affect for the future.
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After the US and USSR pulled troops out of Korea the split country went to war fighting at the boarder.
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The KPA take over Soul causing the US to step back in
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SEATO is formed to halt the development of communism in Asia.
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America"s involvement in the Vietnam War was to attempt to stop communism from taking over the county
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The gain of freedom in the Congo led to the USSR and US trying to use them as an ally during the cold war
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Agent orange was a tactic the US used in Vietnam during the war it caused forests to burn and killed civilians in the process
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One of Americas main weapons in the Vietnam War was the Bomb. Some of the many problems with this is the fact that Civilians were either killed or hurt and it caused major problems to the terrain.
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One of the most brutal dictators come to life, pol pot is responcible for over 1-2 million deaths
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The USSR entered Afghanistan causing many casualties and problems
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The USSR thinks about pulling out of Afganistan put have many things to think about before they do.
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Since 1990 inequality has gotten worse the more the country develops showing that its harder to keep up when times change.
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The First time global inequality has gone down since 1820
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Pol pot dies before he is able to meet his punishemnts for his crimes against humanit
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the 12 consecutive years of decline in the freedoms of the world with 71 countries suffering from freedom loss