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Period: Apr 18, 1394 to Apr 18, 1460
Henry the Navigator
He was a portuguese explorer. He sponsored voyages that led to the rounding of Africa and the establishment of sea routes to the Indies. -
Period: Apr 18, 1451 to Apr 18, 1506
Christopher Colombus
He was an Italian Spanish navigator. He sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean because he wanted to find an easier route to reach Asia, but instead found America. -
Period: Apr 18, 1460 to Apr 18, 1524
Vasco Da Gama
He was a portuguese explorer. He was the first to sail directly from Europe to India during the age of discovery. -
Period: Apr 25, 1473 to
Scientific Revolution
A period of new ideas, and modern science. It began in Europe towards the end of the Renaissance. -
Period: Apr 18, 1478 to Apr 18, 1541
Francisco Pizarro
He was a spanish conquistador. He conquered the Inca Empire, and he's the founder of Lima which was the modern day Republic of Peru. He "discovered" the Incan Empire. -
Period: Apr 18, 1480 to Apr 18, 1521
Ferdinand Magellan
A Portuguese Explorer. He was the first explorer to sail from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean. He also was the first to cross the Pacific Ocean. His team was the first to complete a circimnavigation of the Earth. -
Period: Apr 30, 1483 to Apr 30, 1531
Babur
He was a military explorer from Asia. He laid the bases for the Mughal Empire -
Period: Apr 18, 1485 to Apr 18, 1547
Hernando Cortes
He was a Spanish Explorer. He is famous for conquering the Aztec Empire in Mexico. -
Period: Apr 30, 1500 to
Columbian Exchange
A trade of slaves, culture, diseases, and ideas between the Western and Eastern Hemispheres. -
Period: Apr 30, 1500 to
Safavid Empire
One of the most significant ruling Empire of Iran. It made Shia'Islam as the official religion of their country which was a huge turning point in muslim history -
Period: Apr 30, 1500 to
Atlantic triangular slave trade
Fish and lumber from New England to West Indies. West Indies to West Africa they took rum, and guns which they traded for slaves. -
Period: Apr 18, 1517 to
Protestant Reformation
It was the European Christian reform movement that established Protestantism as a branch of Christianity. -
Period: Apr 30, 1526 to
Mughal Empire
in South Asia. Ruled a large portion of Indian subcontinent. -
Period: Apr 30, 1552 to
Matteo Ricci
He was an Italian Jesuit priest. wanted to bring faith to China -
Period: Apr 25, 1564 to
Galileo
He was italian. He played a major role in the scientific revolution. He was called the father of modern science. -
Apr 30, 1565
Creation of first colony in the New world
It was what is now Florida and it was colonized by the Spanish -
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Tokugawa Shogunate
Japanese feudal regime. Introduced Neo-Confucianism. -
Period: to
The Thirty Years War
A huge war throughout central Europe. House of Austria (the habsburg) vs. danish, dutch, france, and sweden. It was in Germany. It was also a German Civil War for people for or against the habsburg. It was also a religious war among catholics, lutherans, and calvinists. -
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Qing Dynasty
The last ruling Dyansty of China. After it ended came the republic of China. -
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Peter The Great
He ruled the Russian Empire. He had a modernization and expansion policy that made Russia into the Russian Empire, -
Period: to
Catherine the Great
was empress of Russia because of her husband assasination until her death -
Period: to
Enlightenment
It was an era which rejected traditional views and was for new ideas and science. It believed to have ended with the French revoloution. -
Period: to
French and Indian War
A series of wars between the British and French. In Europe and spread to North America. The cause was because the British wanted to take over french territory in North America and the fur trade. At the end the peace treaty of 1763 gave the British most of the Franch land in North America.