Chapter 19 and 20 Timeline By basilbee Period: 650 to 1600 Muslim Slave Trade Period: 1096 to 1270 Crusades 1275 Marco Polo reaches Kublai Khan China Period: 1368 to 1644 Ming Dynasty Period: 1405 to 1433 7 Voyages of Zheng He 1420 Finished construction of the Forbidden City 1433 China goes into self isolation Period: 1467 to 1568 Sengoku Japanese "Warring States" Period 1492 Christopher Columbus convinces Spain to finance trip to India, "Discovers" America 1494 Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas 1498 Vasco de Gama reaches southwest India 1500 Pedro Alvares Cabral claims Brazil for Portugal 1519 Hernando Cortes lands at Mexico 1521 Magellan arrives in Philipines 1522 Magellan's original crew returns to Spain Without Magellan 1533 Francisco Pizarro conquers the Incan Empire 1543 Portuguese Ship washes up on Japanese Shores Japanese start trading 1607 Jamestown founded New England created 1608 Quebec founded New France created 1639 Japan shuts borders Period: 1644 to 1912 Qing Dynasty Period: 1690 to 1807 English Slave Trade Period: 1754 to 1763 French and the Indian War