1450-1750 AP World History

  • Period: 1299 to

    Ottoman Dynasty

    ruled the ottoman empire. for 600 years
  • Period: 1394 to 1460

    Prince Henry the Navigator

    important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and the Age of Discoveries in total
  • Period: 1400 to

    Songhai Empire

    From the early 15th to the late 16th century, Songhai was one of the largest Islamic empires in history
  • 1453

    Ottoman conquest of Constantinople

    The Fall of Constantinople was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Empire
  • 1455

    Beginning of Portuguese Slave Trade

    Beginning of mass slave trade to the americas, influenceing many other countries
  • 1488

    Dias voyage into Indian Ocean

    first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight of the indian ocean
  • 1491

    Reconquista of Spain

    Reconquista, English Reconquest, in medieval Spain and Portugal, a series of campaigns by Christian states to recapture territory from the Muslims (Moors), who had occupied most of the Iberian Peninsula in the early 8th century.
  • 1492

    Columbus' 1st Voyage

    discovery other the americas by accident. was the beginning of spanish and colonization in the new world
  • 1492

    Columbus sails to the "New World"

    Columbus sails to the "New World"/Spain begins to colonize the Americas/Columbian Exchange begins
  • Period: 1492 to

    Columbian Exchange

    The Columbian Exchange refers to the exchange of diseases, ideas, food. crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World following the voyage to the Americas by Christo pher Columbus in 1492.
  • 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas

    divided the newly discovered lands outside europe between portugal and spain
  • 1497

    Portugal starts colonizing the Americas

    Portugal was the leading country in the European exploration of the world in the 15th century
  • Period: 1502 to

    Safavid Dynasty

    iranian kingdom est by ismail safavi, who declared iraan s Shi'ite state
  • Period: 1519 to 1521

    Spanish Conquest of Mexico

    made mexico a part of spain
  • Period: 1526 to

    Mughal Dynasty

    muslim state exercising dominion over most of india in the 16th and 17th century
  • Period: 1564 to

    Galileo Galilei

    was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution
  • Period: to

    Qing Dynasty

    over threw the ming empire, controlled parts of large parts of asia.