Europe Colonial Endeavours

  • Jun 7, 1480

    Treaty of Tordesillas

    Portugal and Spain reached an agreement that Spain would control regions around Canary Islands and Portugal would control lands south of the Canary Islands and west of Africa
  • Jan 1, 1492

    Caravels

    Light sailing ship used by the Spanish and Portuguese for long voyages. Two of the three ships used by Christopher Columbus were used on his voyage
  • Jan 1, 1503

    Encomienda

    Legal system which Spanish attempted to define status of Indian population in American Colonies but when Indian Populations declined, the system lost effectivness and was replaced.
  • Aug 12, 1521

    Montezuma

    The Aztec's, led by Cuauhtemoc and ravaged by lack of food and disease finally collapsed into the Hands of the Spanish. Tenochtitlan was ransacked of any precious goods and it's monuments were destroyed.
  • Aug 13, 1521

    Hernan Cortes

    With Mexica visibally starving and refusing to surrender, this prompted the spaniards to raze the city sector by sector to maximise the effect. This eventually led to their surrender
  • Nov 15, 1532

    Francisco Pizarro

    Pzarro and his men reached the city of Cajamarca
  • Oct 15, 1535

    Sulieman l

    Took control over the region of Erzurman in eastern Asia and also witnessed the Conquest of Iraq
  • Nov 1, 1535

    Incan Empire

    Topa Inca Yupanqui's death set off a struggle for the empire and eventually lead to the Spanish arriving in Peru and invading
  • Nov 13, 1535

    Atawallpa

    Civil War began between the Inca Empire and the Spanish as Atawallpa refused to convert his people to Christianity as requested by the Spanish
  • Oct 16, 1547

    Franciscans and Jesuits

    Jesuits focused on the leaders of society beliving converting lower class is useless, Franciscans focused attention on lower classes and rejected Japaneese culture.
  • Jan 1, 1581

    African Slavery

    1581 is when the slave proper bagan with the landing of the first cargo of African Captives.
  • Tokugawa Ieyasu

    Ieyasu increasingly convnced that Christianity must be banned and in his final years he took spots to enfore and expand the original injunctions of Hideyoshi against foreign religion.
  • The Far East Company

    The company remanmed Jacarta Batavia and used it as a base to conquer Java and the outer Islands
  • Royal Adventures of England

    With the amound of slavery increasing, the numbers of African Men, Woman and Children brought to foil in fields, mills and houses raised. By 1684, population skyrocketed for the Black community and lowered for the White
  • Asiento

    Last Asiento was granted to British South Sea company which entitled the company to send 4,800 slaves to Spanish America annually for 30 years and to send one ship each year to engage in general trade
  • Capitalism

    Ideology of classical capitalism was expressed in recommending leaving economic decisions to the free play of Self regulation market forces
  • Suez Canal links Mediterranean and Red Seas

    Important trading route that connects two bodies of water which before were very impractical to use to trade and travel through.