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1299-1922
Empire that controled most of the middle east, north africa, and much of eastern Europe -
1394-1460
Portuguese prince who encouraged naval exploration and innovations -
Portuguese slave trade began in the 1400's when Henry the navigator sailed to Africa and brought back African slaves with him
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1451-1481
Ottoman sultan who brought an end to the byzantine emperor -
1464-1492
first Emperor of the west African, Songhai Empire -
1464–1591
Songhai was one of the largest Islamic empires in history, located in western africa -
1483-1546
Martin Luther started the protestant reformation with the 95 theses that e posted on the door of the wittenburg castle church door and founded the lutheran church -
Bartolemeu Dias sailed to the tip of africa and back to portugal.
named the tip of Africa the Cape of Storms -
Columbus asked for ships and funding for a voyage across the pacific to India from Isabella and landed on the island of hispaniola.
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Treaty that split the world between portugal and spain for colonizaion and exploration
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1501-1736
the safavid was one of the most significant ruling dynasties of Persia who controlled all of the middle east except arabia -
1509-1564
John Calvin was an influential man during the protestant revolution. He founded the Calvinist church -
1519-1521
Cortés defeated the Aztec empire with relative ease because the aztecs were dying of new diseases and feared the guns that the spanish had -
1520-1566
10th and longest reigning sultan of the ottoman empire -
1526-1857
an empire that ruled over most of India and some of the middle east -
Ignatius Loyola founded the society of jesus with permission from the papacy. They were devoted to converting people to catholicism
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1545-1563
The Catholic church moved to Trent to get away from the protestant heretics -
1556-1605
third ruler of the mughal dynasty -
1564-1642
Galileo was an italian physicist, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher that had a large impact during the scientific revolution. -
1572-1620
He was the 13th ruler of the ming dynasty and had the longest reign of all the ming emperors. he slowly witnessed the decline of the ming dynasty -
The spanish naval fleet that made them the strongest nation of their time
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1600-1868
the last feudal japanese military government, so basically the last empire of samurai -
1618-1648
war fought in europe over religioun that pitted the protestant nations against the roman catholic ones -
1632-1704
John Locke was an enlightenment thinker who thought that the people have a right to decide when the government is unjust -
1644-1912 empire controling China, modern mongolia, and tibet
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a series of peace treaties ending the thirty years war
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1754-1763
Great Britain competed with both France and Spain over trade and colonies -
the Australian colony was built using the labor of British prisoners instead of slave labor. After the colony was built the prisoners stayed there
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1791-1804
a slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue
