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Period: Jan 1, 1200 to Dec 31, 1300
The Invention of the Compass
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Jun 1, 1200
Italian cities were producing coins with fixed values
This encouraged international trade and banking. -
Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Age of Exploration
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Period: Dec 31, 1400 to
The Commercial Revolution
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Period: Jan 1, 1487 to
European Explorations
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Period: Jan 1, 1492 to
Spains Golden Age
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Aug 1, 1492
Columbus set sail from Spain
Queen Isabella financed columbus's voyage... His small fleet landed on a tiny island that columbus named "San Salvador", which today they are known as the Indies. -
Jan 13, 1510
The Portuguese Expand
In about 1510 they conquered part of the southwest coast of India... They conquered Malacca on the southwest coast of the Malay Peninsula and the Moluccas (A group of Islands)... The also gained footholds in China and Japan... They established a colony in Brazil... Finally, they establsihed several armed trading posts on the East African coast. -
Jan 1, 1513
Ponce de Leon
A Spanish explorer who sailed outward from spain, northward and landed on what today is Florida. -
Jan 9, 1516
Charles the V takes spanish throne
During his reign he;
-He was elected Holy Roman Empreror
-Drained spain's human resources and treasury due to religous wars.
-Spain lacked so much industries, that the country country could not produce enough food for all of its people.
-Between 1500 and 1650 food prices raised multiple times.
-In 1556 Charles realized that ruling the Holy Roman Empire and Spain was to much, he ended up giving up his throne and dividing the land between his family members! -
Jan 1, 1519
Hernan Cortes
He inaved Mexico in 1519, with 11 ships and about 600 men... He siezed the aztec ruler Moctezuma II, and captured and destroyed the Aztec city and Tenochtitlan. -
Sep 1, 1521
Ferdinand Magellan
He led the first expedition to sail completely around the world...Proved that the world was round and larger than previously thought... Discovered new oceans and land.... Proved that all oceans and landmasses were connected... He named the great ocean the "Pacific Ocean" because it was calm. -
Jan 1, 1530
Francisco Pizarro
He led 180 men and 37 horses on an expedition... In 1533 Pizarro claimed the land from present day Ecuador to Chile > For Spain. -
Jan 1, 1543
Copernicus's Theory
Copernicus developed the "Heliocentric Theory", the sun was the center of the universe... His theory explained many of the then-known facts about Astronomy. -
Miguel De Cervantes published a novel called "Don Quixote de la Mancha
He told the story of an aging man stuck in the myths of the past. -
Amerigo Vespucci - Italian Navigator
He followed Columbus westward... Between 1497 and 1504, was apart of spanish portuguese expenditions... He did not the land he saw was Asia, he called it "the new world".