From Exploration To Independence

By hank.anderson
  • Period: 12,000 BCE to 600 BCE

    The Olmecs

  • Period: 1800 BCE to 800

    The Maya

  • Pope Urbans Calls for Crudsades in the holy Land
    1095

    Pope Urbans Calls for Crudsades in the holy Land

    Pope Urban calls for the crusades
  • Europe is a farming Economy
    1200

    Europe is a farming Economy

    Europe got its resources from farming and ate the crops for food
  • Period: 1200 to 1521

    The Aztecs

  • Marco Polo travels to East
    1271

    Marco Polo travels to East

    Marco polo travel to the east
  • Crusades end
    1289

    Crusades end

    The crusades ended
  • Polo imprisoned and writes his book
    1289

    Polo imprisoned and writes his book

    Marco polo wrote a book about his discoveries while imprisoned.
  • Polos Journey Home
    1293

    Polos Journey Home

    Marco polo sail back to Europe.
  • Period: 1300 to

    The Renaissance

    Timespan of the Renaissance
  • Period: 1400 to 1532

    The Inca

  • Prince Henry
    1415

    Prince Henry

    Prince henry financed the new discoveries
  • 1419

    Event

  • 1427

    Event

  • 1434

    Event

  • The printing press Johann Gutenburg
    1440

    The printing press Johann Gutenburg

    Johann Gutenburg Invented the printing press
  • 1488

    Event

  • Cortes invades the Aztec
    1519

    Cortes invades the Aztec

  • Pizarro Invades the Inca
    1529

    Pizarro Invades the Inca

  • The Inca fall under Pizarro
    1532

    The Inca fall under Pizarro

  • Thomas Hobbs writes the leviathan

    Thomas Hobbs writes the leviathan

  • John Locke writes the second treatise on government

    John Locke writes the second treatise on government

  • The United States declares Independence

    The United States declares Independence

  • France writes the Declaration of the rights of man

    France writes the Declaration of the rights of man

  • Haiti gains independence

    Haiti gains independence

  • Bolivar and his soldiers begin Venezuela's fight for independence

    Bolivar and his soldiers begin Venezuela's fight for independence

  • Bolivar's Gran Columbia gains it's independence

    Bolivar's Gran Columbia gains it's independence

  • Jose de San Martin frees Peru from Spain

    Jose de San Martin frees Peru from Spain

  • Mexico gains independence

    Mexico gains independence