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The Catholics tried to conquer Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the Muslims. -
Lower class citizens see new ways of life and new goods starting the commercial revolution. -
The famous explorer, Marco Polo is born in Venice, Italy. He will soon venture the world discovering many new things. -
Storms and disease ravages through Polo's crew leaving only 18 of the former 700 passengers alive. -
Polo is captured in battle but is inspired to write a book about his life journeys by another writer. The book becomes on of the most famous books of it's time. -
Portuguese capture Fort Ceuta in Africa. After this Portugal set up many new trading posts in Africa. -
Portugal discovers the Madeira Islands, this encouraged them to explore farther south. -
Portugal makes their second island discovery this time of the Azores Islands. -
In 1434 Portugal finally made their first successful return voyage home from Africa. -
Ferdinand and Isabella drive the Muslims out of Catholic Spain gaining their freedom. -
Christopher Columbus proposes an Idea to sail west to the India, but it gets rejected. -
Bartolomeu Días reaches the eastern coast of South Africa but his crew mutinies and refused to go farther. -
Christopher Columbus discovers the Americas for Spain making them one of the richest countries in the world. -
Vasco De Gama and Portugal discover an overseas route to India making them one of the richest countries in the world. -
Thomas Hobbes expresses his view of society through his book, The Leviathan. -
John Locke writes a new view on government and the rights of man, and says that they can make their own reasonable choices, without the oppression of government. -
The United States declares independence from The British with their three unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -
France declares independence by creating the Rights of Man, and create a new French government with help from the sacred rights of liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. -
In 1791, enslaved blacks start their fight for independence. -
The slaves of Haiti win their freedom from the French as the Haitian Revolution ends. -
The Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte Invades Spain and places his brother upon the Spanish throne. -
While all of his co-leaders for the independence movement were being arrested, Miguel Hidalgo Yelled from the town square to the people to fight against their Spanish oppressors. Starting the Mexican Revolution. -
Simón Bolívar begins the Admirable Campaign with his capture of Venezuela. -
In 1817, Spanish troops recapture Chile. -
Economic crisis destroys many banks including the ban of St. Louis where Moses works. -
Moses and his slave Richmond venture to eastern Texas in 1820. -
San Martín captures Lima, freeing Peru from spanish rule and proclaims them Independent. -
With the help of Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico gains independence from the Spanish Crown. -
Mexico passes a new law allowing Stephen F. Austin to move settlers into Texas. -
Bolívar declares himself the supreme leader of Peru, and creates the Republic of Bolivia. -
Mexico proclaims that they will now have a president and a congress, becoming a Democracy. These new laws are called the Constitution of 1824 -
Stephen F. Austin founds San Felipe De Austin, The first capital of Texas. It becomes a thriving workplace for all families. -
Austin founds the little colony with the four contracts he acquires. -
Led by Benjamin Edwards, a revolutionary group declares independence from Mexico without Texas support. The revolution would be put to a firm halt once the Mexican Army arrived. -
At 1827 San Felipe now contains more than a 100 colonists. -
Mexico ends all immigration from the United States into Mexico in an attempt to stop American influence. -
Texans were not happy with new laws and supported Santa Anna. This led to Texans acquiring cannons for defense. Ugartechea did not like this and a battle started which led to a Mexican surrender. -
Santa Anna is elected president, causing Texans to ask for many new things including statehood. -
Santa Anna declares himself dictator of Mexico and dispels congress. In addition, Stephen F. Austin met with him about separate statehood, but was later arrested after a letter was discovered. -
Mexican soldiers storm the Alamo, Leaving every single Texan soldier dead and leaving Mexico with many losses. -
Texans refuse to surrender their cannon to Mexico, and when they tried to take it, the Texans fought back, sparking the first battle of the war. -
The Texas army does a surprise attack on the Mexican soldiers, capturing the Goliad fort, but more importantly; gave the Texans hope. -
A Mexican cavalry is attacked and captured by Texans, but the supply train only contained animal feed. -
With the leadership of Ben Milam, the Texans defeat General Cos in Bexar, and capture the Alamo. -
The Mexican troops begin to bombard the Alamo with cannon fire starting the 13-day siege. -
Over 342 Texan soldiers are ruthlessly gunned down at Goliad. This led to one of the rallying points of the Battle of San Jacinto. -
In Just a mere 18 minutes, Sam Houston's forces defeated the Mexican army, bringing the end to the Texas Revolution with the chants of "remember the Alamo", and "remember Goliad". -
After the war, Texas signs the Treaty of Velasco officially making them an independent state.