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From Exploration to Independence

  • Period: 1800 BCE to 800

    The Maya

  • Period: 1200 BCE to 600 BCE

    The Olmec

  • Pope Urban calls for Crusades in the Holy Land
    1095

    Pope Urban calls for Crusades in the Holy Land

  • Europe is a farming economy (feudalism
    1200

    Europe is a farming economy (feudalism

  • Period: 1200 to 1521

    The Aztec

  • Marco Polo travels to the East
    1271

    Marco Polo travels to the East

  • Crusades end
    1289

    Crusades end

  • Polos journey home
    1293

    Polos journey home

  • Polo imprisoned and writes his book
    1298

    Polo imprisoned and writes his book

  • Period: 1300 to

    The Renaissance

  • Period: 1400 to 1532

    The Inca

  • Portuguese captured fortress of Cueta
    1415

    Portuguese captured fortress of Cueta

  • Portuguese find Madeira Islands
    1419

    Portuguese find Madeira Islands

  • Portuguese find Azores Islands
    1427

    Portuguese find Azores Islands

  • Prince Henrys ships make a successful voyage
    1434

    Prince Henrys ships make a successful voyage

  • Printing press invented
    1440

    Printing press invented

  • Marriage of Ferdinand of Aragaon and Isabella of Castille
    1469

    Marriage of Ferdinand of Aragaon and Isabella of Castille

  • Bartolomeu Días makes it around the tip of Africa
    1488

    Bartolomeu Días makes it around the tip of Africa

  • Columbus made landfall on Hispanola
    Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus made landfall on Hispanola

  • Cortes invades the Aztec
    1519

    Cortes invades the Aztec

    Cortes and the Spanish army invade Aztec.
  • Pizarro invades Inca
    1529

    Pizarro invades Inca

    Pizarro and the Spanish army invade Inca
  • The Inca fall under Pizarro
    1532

    The Inca fall under Pizarro

    The Inca empire falls and the Spanish now own the land.
  • Thomas hobbes writes the leviathan

    Thomas hobbes writes the leviathan

    Thomas hobbes writes the book called the leviathan
  • John locke writes The Second Treatise on Government

    John locke writes The Second Treatise on Government

    John Locke writes the book The Second Treatise on Government
  • The United States declare independence

    The United States declare independence

    The United States officially become independent from britain although they are are still fighting.
  • France rights declaration rights man

    France rights declaration rights man

    France declared a democracy where they wrote the declaration of rights man
  • Haiti gains indepedence

    Haiti gains indepedence

    Haiti gains independence from their motherland of France
  • Bolívar and his soldiers begin Venezuela's fight for independence

    Bolívar and his soldiers begin Venezuela's fight for independence

    The revolution of Venezuela begins.
  • Bolivar’s Gran Columbia gains its independence

    Bolivar’s Gran Columbia gains its independence

    Gran Columbia earns its independence
  • Jose de San Martin frees Peru from Spain

    Jose de San Martin frees Peru from Spain

    Jose de San Martin earns the independence of Peru.
  • Mexico gains its independence

    Mexico gains its independence

    Mexico gains independence from Spain