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Was an empire founded by Oghuz Turks under Osman Bey in northwestern Anatolia.
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Because Henry devoted the rest of his life to promoting exploration, he is known as Henry the Navigator.
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The start of African Slave trade.
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Sunni Ali was the first king of the Songhai Empire, located in west Africa and the 15th ruler of the Sonni dynasty.
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Was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire twice.
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A young professor of sacred scripture, objected to this practice and to other excesses.
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Bartolomeu Dias became the first Portuguese explorer to round the southern tip of Africa and enter the Indian Ocean.
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First voyage to the Carribean.
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Divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and Spain.
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The Mughal emperors of India largely ignored Portugal’s maritime intrusions, seeing their interests as maintaining control over their vast land possessions.
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Songhai was one of the largest Islamic empires in history.
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Was one of the most significant ruling dynasties of Persia.
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A well- educated Frenchman who left the study of law for theology after experiencing a religious conversion, became an influential Protestant leader
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Spanish Conquistadores against Aztecs
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Was the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
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Was the most important event of the Catholic Reformation, which well- educated Jesuits helped stem the Protestant tide.
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A council that met in the city of Trent to distinguish Catholic doctrines from Protestant "error."
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Was the thirteenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty in China.
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Galileo built a telescope through which he could look more closely at the heavens. Able to magnify distant objects thirty times beyond the power of the naked eye, Galileo saw that heavenly bodies were not the perfectly smooth spheres of the Aristotelians. The moon had mountains and valleys, the sun had spots, other planets had their own moons. In other words, the earth was not alone in being heavy and changeable.
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The Mughal emperor Akbar permitted the Portuguese to continue their maritime monopoly in return for allowing one ship a year to carry pilgrims to Mecca without paying the Portuguese any fee.
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Was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from A Coruña.
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Was the last feudal Japanese military government.
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Was a series of wars principally fought in Central Europe, involving most of the countries of Europe.
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An English political philosopher disputed monarchial claims to absolute authority by divine right.
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Was the last imperial dynasty of China.
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The Peace of Westphalia was a series of peace treaties signed. These treaties ended the Thirty Years' War in the Holy Roman Empire, and the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Dutch Republic.
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It involved most of the great powers of the time and affected Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines.
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British set up the first colony because they needed to find alternative land since they lost the American colonies.
