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The Ottoman dynasty is known in modern Turkish as Osmanli Hanedani, meaning "House of Osman." Beginning with Osman l, the tribe/dynasty was known as Sogut Beylik.
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From the early 15th to the late 15th century, the Songhay dynasty was one of the largest Islamic Empires in history. The empire bore the same name as its leading ethnic group, the Songhay.
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Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation & directed voyages of exploration down the Western coast.
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Conquered Constantinople and brought an end to the Byzantine Empire. He founded many universities and colleges in the city (some still in use).Recognized as the first Sultan to codify criminal and constitutional law.
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The Portuguese slave trade too place across the Atlantic ocean from the 16th - 19th centuries. The vast majority of the slaves transported to the New World were Africsns. The first slaves that were sold were also called, "Indentured Slaves."
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Sunni Ali was made the first king of the Songhai Empire.Captured Timbuktu, 1468, and Djenné, 1475.
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Martin Luther was a German monk, priest, professor of theology and seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money.
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Dias is thought to be the first European to go around the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean. However, after rounding the cape, his crew forced him to turn around to Portugual
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Columbus initiated European Exploration and Colonization of the American Continents. He made four trips to the Americas and latered discovered Spain.
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Divded the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and Spain along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands.
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The Safavid Empire was one of the most significant ruling dynasties of Iran. They ruled one of the greatest Persian empires since the Muslim conquest of Persia and established the Twelver school of Shi'a Islam as the official religion.
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John Calvin influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system Christian theology later called Calvinism.
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This was one of the most significant events in the Spanish Colonizations of the American. Cortes allied with a number of the tributaries and rivals of the Aztecs to take it down.
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Had complety reconstructed the Ottoman legal system. Had personally led Ottoman armies to conquer the Christian territories of Rhodes, Belgrade, and most of Hungary.
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The Mughal Empire was an imperial power in South Asia that ruled a large portion of the Indian subcontinent. It began in 1526, invaded and ruled most of India by the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and ended in the mid-19th century
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A Christian male religious order of the Roman Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits and are also known as "God's Marines."
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Was the third Mughal and was the Timurid descent. He covered most of central and nothern India.
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The Council of Trent was an Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church. It convened in Trento, Italy, then the capital of the Prince-Bishopric of Trent of the Holy Roman Empire.
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His era means "Then thousands calendars". He was the longqing Emperor's third son ruling 48 years in the Ming Dynasty.
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Galileo was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution.
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A Spanish fleet that sailed against England under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonoa in 1588. This put an end to Elizabeth l of England to her involvement in the Spanish Netherlands.
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The Tokugawa Shogunate was a feudal military dictatorship in Japan and established by Tokugawa Ieyasu.Their religion was Buddhism and Shinto
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The Thirty Years War is considered to be one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. No single cause for the war can be determined. Initially, the war was fought largely as a religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire.
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Also known as Father of Classical Liberalism, John Locke was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightment thinkers.
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The last imperial dynasty of China which was overthrown by revolutionaries during the Qing dynasty China was ruled by the Manchu.
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It was a peace treaty signed that ended the Thirty Years' War in the Holy Roman Empire and the Eight Year's War between Spain and Dutch Republic.
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He was a victim of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Born in Bondu, Senegal, Ayuba's memoirs were published as one of the earliest slave narratives, a first-person account of the slave trade.
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A world war that took place between 1756 and 1763 involving most of the great powers of the time and affecting tons (Europe, Africa, India, South America, Philippines, and North America). Alot of other wars were going on at this time so it was difficult to find a name.
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The first 736 covicts basished from England to Australia land to Botany Bay. Over the next 60 years and small colony begin to thrive with another 50,000 criminals.
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The Haitian Revolution was a period of 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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The U.S. offically banned the importation of slaves, abolishing the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
