Other world events

By aashna0768
  • Period: Jan 1, 1492 to

    other world events

  • Discovery
    Jan 7, 1492

    Discovery

    Christopher Comlumbus sailed the Ocean blue in 1942. He discovered America.
  • Vasco de gama
    Jan 1, 1498

    Vasco de gama

    Vasco da Gama travels around tip of Africa to India and returns with jewels
    and spices; Portugal establishes trading posts in Spice Islands (Indonesia).
  • Slavery
    Jan 7, 1500

    Slavery

    European countries establish the slave trade in west Africa to obtain
    workers for the sugar and tobacco plantations in South America and the
    Caribbean, and the cotton plantations in the southern U.S.
  • British rule over India

    British rule over India

    British East India Company is established and sets up trading posts in India.