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Portuguese Empire. Responsible for maritime trade with other countries.
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Discovered the Americas.
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Porteguese explorer. One of the most successful during the Age of Discovery... First to sail directly from Europe to India.. Was Governer of Porteguese India for a short while.
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A Spanish conquistador that conquered the Incan Empire and founded the modern day capital of Peru, Lima.
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A Porteguese explorer whose expedition completeled the first expedition around the world (though he died before it was completed). He was the first explorer to go from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic, and one of the first to cross all of the meridians of the globe.
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Full name: Zahir ud-din Muhammad Babur. Military adventurer from Central Asia... Rose to power in present day Afghanistan (Kabul) where he built an army and conqered nearby regions. He invaded the Lodi Afghan Empire and laid the basis for the Mughal Empire.
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The huge exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations, diseases, and ideas between Old and New Worlds after the discovery of America in 1492.
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A trade between West Africa, Caribbean/American colonies and European powers. Slaves produced sugar in the Americas, shipping it to Europe where rum was produced, and materials were all transported to West Africa, were it was traded for slaves, who were transported to the Americas.
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One of the most significant in Iran, established the Twelver school of Shi'a Islam... Shi'a Islam is the official religion of their empire. They established an efficient state based upon "checks and balances" had innovations in architecture and fine arts...
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The European movement that established Protestantism was one of the branches of Christianity.
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At their height of power they controlled most of India, extending from Bengal to the east to Balochistan in the west, Kashmir in the norht to the Kaveri basin in the south.
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A period after the Renaissance era, sparked in Europe, where new ideas in areas like physics, astronomy, biology, human anatomy, chemistry, and other sciences overrulled the past sciences. It transitioned into the latter period- The Enlightenment.
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An Italian Jesuit priest. Founding figures of the Jesuit China Mission. He was one of the first Western scholars to master Chinese script and Classical Chinese.
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An Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. He supported Copernicanism. he was called the father of many things: modern observational astronomy, modern physics, and modern science.
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A feudal regima of Japan... Established by Tokugawa leyasu. Known as the Edo Period. (Tokyo) Ruled from Edo Castle.. Abolished during the Meiji Restoration.
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Fought in modern Germany, involving most European countries. Naval warfare involved as well. Largely a religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics, also disputes over the internal politics and balance of pwer.
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Also known as the Manchu Dynasty. The last dynasty of China. Founded by the Manchu clan. Became highly integrated with Chinese culture. It declined due to weakened military power, massive rebellions, and defeat in wars.
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Ruled Russia and the Russian Empire until his death. Carried out a policy of modernization and expansion... Made Russia into a major European power.
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An era in which reason was known as the main source of legitimacy and authority... The Age of Reason.
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A war between Great Britain and France in North America... French were allied with the Indians.
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He was King of France from 1774 till 1791, then King of the French from 1791-1792. During the French Revolution he was arrested, tried by the National Convention, found guilty of high treason, then executed by beheading in 1793. Only king of France to be executed. He was viewed as a symbol of tyranny. His wife was Maria Antonia (Antoinette). France disapproved of their union.
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Born on May 2, 1729. Empress of Russia after her husbands death in 1762 until her death. The Empire expanded, continued to modernize, and grew stronger than ever. Paul I succeeded her.
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Military and political leader during the end of the French Revolution... Made himself Emperor of the French with a legal reform of the Napoleonic Code. He spread revolutionary ideals.
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The 13 colonies in North American joined and broke free of the British Empire. First rejecting the Parliament, and a series of boycotts and revolts.
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Enlightenment principles overrulled the absolute monarchy that had ruled in France for centuries in three years. The first year of the revolution started with members of the "Third Estate" and the Tennis Court Oath, assault on the Bastille, Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, epic march on Versailles forced the royal court back to Paris.
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A symbolical task. The fortress and prison in Paris represented royal authority. The bourgeoisie stormed the fortress... Its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution.
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Adopted by the National onstituent Assembly during the Frenh Revolution. Prepared and proposed by the Marquis de Lafayette... The second and lengthier declaration of 1793 was later adopted.
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A conflict in the French colony of Saint Dominigue.. Resulted in the elimination of slavery and the founding of the Haitian republic.
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Conference of ambassadors of Euopean states chaired by Klemens Wenzel von Metternich. Objective- to settle the issues from the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the Holy Roman Empire. It resulted in the redrawing of the continent's political map, and establishing various boundaries. Concert of Europe- an attempt to forge a peaceful balance of power in Europe. A model for later organizations.
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Emperor Napoleon defeated here by combined armies of the Seventh Coalition. It put an end to Napoleon's rule as Emperor of the French.