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Empire started by Turkish Tribes in North Western Anatolia and established as an empire at the fall of Constinople.
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Relatively big and expanded into the Sahara from the South. Brought wealth from the Trans Saharan trade and ruled by Muslims.
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Portugal royal prince, soldier, & explorer who helped the development of European exploration and maritime trade.
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African slave began being shipped to the Americas for Portugese colonies and by 1455 800 slaves were brought annualy.
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Ruled the Ottoman empire and conquered Constantinople and ended the Byzantine Empire. He founded many universities and colleges and was recongnized as the first Sultan to codify criminal and constitutional law.
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First king of the Songhai empire and captured Timbuktu in 1468 and Djenne in 1475.
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German theologist who played a major part in the Protestant Reformation. Taught that entrance to salvation relied on faith in God
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Dias' traveled south from Portugal towards the tip of southern Africa, hoping to make it to India & China
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Columbus' first voyage left on Aug. 3, 1492. The ships fleets consisted of the; Nina, Pinta, & Santa Maria. They were searching for a new route to Asia but winds blew them in the wrong direction & found the America's.
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Between Spain and Portugal to clear up any confusion on any new land in the New World. Re-established the 370 west of the Cape Verde Islands
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French theologian and pastor during Protestant reformation and key figure in development of Christian theology called Calvinism.
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Cortes overran the Aztec's, who's population has decreased due to disease like smallpox, and took over Mexico.
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He reconstructed the Ottoman Legal system and personally led Ottoman armies to capture Christian territories.
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Muslim emperors who were direct descendants of Gehnghis Khan and controled India
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Male Christian religious order of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Council that met in Trent, in northern Italy, to distinguishe catholic doctrines from protestant errrors and the Pope's supremacy affirmed.
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Akbar was 13 years old when he inherited the Mughal throne. He influenced art and culture in Mughal and liked paintings so much that he has walls of his palace painted in murals.
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Italian physicist, mathematician, scientist, and astronomer who was a major part of the Scientific revolution. Also Invented the first telescope.
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Wanli's era meant "Ten thousand calenders." Born Zhu Yijun and was Longqing Emperor's third son.
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Spanish fleet that sailed against the England with intention of overthrowing Elizabeth I of England and in privateering in the Atlantic and Pacific.
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Established by Tokugawa leyasu and ruled by Shoguns of the Tokugawa family. Known as the Edo period, which was the capital city and is present day Tokyo
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One of the longest and destructive wars in European history caused by European countries search for power. Loss of population and economic decline were a result of the war
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Political figure who argued for people's rights and that the goverment was supposed to protect those rigths. His thoughts led to government reformation & civil rights movements.
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Manchus reign of China that advanced Chinese institutions and philosophy to a higher level.
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Series of treaties that ended the 30 years war in the Holy Roman Empire.
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Last major conflict before the French revolution and involved all the great powers of Europe. Involved overseas colonial struggles between Great Britain and France.
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Penal colony called New Sounth Wales
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Slaves started a rebellion in St. Domingue (present day Haiti) which ended slavery there and French control of the colony.
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British passed an act that made slavery illegal in Britain and set an example for the rest of the world of how slavery was immoral & wrong.
