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The Song Dynasty fell to the Moghuls in 1279 beginning the Yuan Dynasty.
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The Ming Dynasty booted out the last of the Mongul rulers in China.
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He originally intended to find a different route to India and ended up discovering the 'New World.'
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He rounded the Cape of Good Hope, explored the east African kingdoms, and then went all the way to India, where he established trade relations.
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He explored South America on several trips around 1500; realized that the continent was huge and not part of Asia; America was named for him.
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He explored Florida for Spain in search of the fountain of youth.
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German monk who wanted to reform the church and ended up creating his own denomination.
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In 1519, he sailed around the tip of South America to the Pacific Ocean for Portugal. He made it as far as the Philippines, where he died; his crew continued, however, and became the first to circumnavigate the globe.
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King Henry VIII nullified the pope's authority in England and placed himself as head of the Church of England.
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A group of church officials who held a series of meetings known as the Council of Trent to direct the counter-reformation, starting in 1545 to 1563.
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It was intended to bring an end to the constant conflicts between Catholics and Protestants during the Reformation and Counter- Reformation.
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A strict and rigid government established by Tokugawa Ieyasu that ruled Japan until 1868.
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Written by Galileo in Italian so that a wide audience could read it.
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He invented Calculous and developed law of gravity in his book The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.
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Congress wrote the Declaration of Indeprendance and sent it to Britain.
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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin allowing massive amounts of cotten to be processed quickly.
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Robert Fulton invented the first steamship in 1807 soon to be followed by George Stephenson's invention of the the steam-powered locamotive.
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Invented by Samuel Morse. It allowed people to communicate across long distances within seconds.
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The first Opium War started in 1839 to 1842 over a British and Chinese dispute over the sale of opium.
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Carl Marx and Freidrich Engels wrote that the working class would eventually revolt and take control of the means of production.
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The US enters WW1 on the allies side in 1917.
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The US stock market crashed in October 1929, known as the Great Depression.
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In 1933, Hitler became chancellor, or leader of the Reichstag, which is the Weimer Republic's elected body.
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WW2 officially began in 1939 but had disputes leading to the war right after the end of WW1.
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The T'ang Dynasty began in 618 under Emperor Xuangzong. They exppanded their empire into parts of Manchuria, Mongolia, Tibet, and Korea.
