Period 2 ATP By k.olivia21 Period: 1450 to 1480 Russia over throws Mongol rule in Moscow 1453 Ottomans seize Constantinople Period: 1464 to 1591 Songhai Empire 1469 Sikhism begins 1491 Reconquista of Spain 1492 Columbus reached America 1497 Portugal begins colonizing the Americas 1498 Vasco de Gama reaches India Period: 1501 to 1722 Safavid Empire 1517 Beginning if Protestant Reformation Period: 1519 to 1521 Magellan and crew circumnavigate the World 1521 Cortez conquers the Aztecs Period: 1526 to 1748 Mughal Empire 1534 Enslaved Africans begin to arrive in the Americas 1534 France begins to colonize the Americas 1543 First ideas of a heliocentric universe(Copernnicus) 1545 Discovery of silver Period: 1550 to 1700 Scientifc Revolution Period: 1556 to 1605 Akbar the Great rules over Mughal Empire 1571 Beginning of a global trade system 1571 Founding of Manila 1600 British East India Company is founded Period: 1600 to 1826 Tokugawa Shogunate 1607 British begin to colonize the Americas Period: 1618 to 1648 30 years War 1632 Taj Mahal gets built Period: 1648 to 1715 Rule of King Louis XIV 1689 Glorious Revolution Period: 1689 to 1725 Peter the Great rules and westernizes Russia Period: 1715 to 1789 The Enlightment