-
The Ottoman dynasty is known in modern Turkish as Osmanlı Hanedanı, meaning "House of Osman"; in Ottoman Turkish it was known as Hanedan-ı Âl-i Osman.
-
Largest Islamic Empire
-
Son of the King of Portugal
-
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire twice
-
-
PRince Henry established slave market
-
largest most powerful empire in western Africa
-
German monk, priest, professor of theology and seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation.
-
The expedition sailed south along the West coast of Africa.
-
He found the Americas
-
The lands to the east would belong to Portugal and the lands to the west to Spain. The treaty was ratified by Spain (at the time, the Crowns of Castile and Aragon), 2 July 1494 and by Portugal, 5 September 1494. The other side of the world would be divided a few decades later by the Treaty of Zaragoza or Saragossa, signed on 22 April 1529, which specified the antimeridian to the line of demarcation specified in the Treaty of Tordesillas. Originals of both treaties are kept at the Archivo General
-
ruled one of the greatest Persian empires after the Muslim conquest of Persiaand established the Twelver school of Shi'a Islam as the official religion of their empire, marking one of the most important turning points in Muslim history.
-
French theoligian and pastor
-
Hernando Cortez, acting essentially on his own, with an army of only about 500 men overthrew the wealthiest, most sophisticated, and most powerful empire on the American continent.
-
the tenth and longest-reigning Emperor, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1520 to his death in 1566. He is known in the West as Suleiman the Magnificent
-
the tenth and longest-reigning Emperor, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1520 to his death in 1566. He is known in the West as Suleiman the Magnificent
-
The Mughal emperors were Muslims and direct descendants of Genghis Khan through Chagatai Khan and Timur.
-
Christian male religious order of the Roman Catholic Church.
-
Was an Ecumenical Council of the Holy Roman Empire
-
Akbar was only 14 years of age in 1556 when he succeeded his father Humayun.
-
was an astronomer
-
emperor of China (Ming dynasty) between 1572 and 1620. His era name means "Ten thousand calendars".
-
a Spanish fleet that sailed against England
-
Tokugawa Ieyasu defeated the daimyos who were loyal to the late Toyotomi Hideyoshi and his young son Hideyori at the Battle of Sekigahara in October of 1600. Fifteen years later, he would besiege the young Toyotomi heir at Osaka Castle; Hideyori's defenses failed and the young man committed seppuku, confirming the Tokugawa hold on power once and for all.
-
series of wars principally fought in Central Europe, involving most of the countries of Europe.
-
Father of Classical Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.
-
it was a vast imperial dynasty of China
-
series of peace treaties signed between May and October 1648 in Osnabrück and Münster. These treaties ended the Thirty Years' War
-
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.
-
-
was a slave revolt in the French Colonies
-
An Act of Parliament made in the United Kingdom passed on 25 March 1807, with the long title "An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade". The original act is in the Parliamentary Archives. The act abolished the slave trade in the British Empire, but not slavery itself. Many of the Bill's supporters thought the Act would lead to the death of slavery. It was not until much later that slavery itself was actually abolished.