Exploration to independence By jhdeneke_2.0 Period: 1800 BCE to 800 The Maya Period: 1200 BCE to 600 BCE The Olmec 1095 Pope Urban calls for Crusades in the Holy Land 1200 Europe is a farming economy Period: 1200 to 1521 The Aztec 1271 Marco Polo travels to the East 1289 Crusades end 1293 Polos journey home 1298 Polo imprisoned and writes his book Period: 1300 to 1600 The Renaissance 1400 Printing press invented Period: 1400 to 1532 The Inca 1415 Portugal captures Fortress of Ceuta 1419 Portugal discovers Madeira islands 1427 Azores islands discovered by Portugal 1434 Successful voyage around the cape 1469 Catholic Spain unified 1488 Dias reaches eastern of south africa Oct 14, 1492 Columbus lands in the new world 1519 Cortes invades the Aztec 1529 Pizarro invades the Inca 1532 The Inca fall under Pizarro 1641 Thomas Hobbes writes The Leviathan 1690 John Locke writes The Second Treatise on Government Jul 4, 1776 The United States declares independence 1789 France writes the declaration of rights of man
