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Period: Feb 2, 1375 to
Songhai Empire
Cause- The Songhai Empire was created when Mali conquered Gao and the new capital was moved there.
Effect- Songhai conquered most of the weak part of the the Mali Empire. -
Period: Feb 2, 1394 to Feb 2, 1460
Prince Henry the Navigator.
Cause- He wanted to find new trade routes, gain more wealth, and convert people to catholism.
Effect- He sent and paid for expeditions and made a school of navigation. -
Period: Feb 2, 1432 to Feb 2, 1481
Reign of Mehmed the Conqueror
Cause- Sin murad II died and the ottomans needed a new sultan.
Effect- He conquered Constantinople and while this he also ended the Byzantine Empire. -
Period: Feb 2, 1450 to Feb 2, 1500
Beginning of Portuguese Slave Trade
1450-1500. CA
Cause- The African king ran out of gold.
Effect- He started trading slaves -
Period: Feb 2, 1464 to Feb 2, 1492
Reign of Sunni Ali
Cause- He brought a plethora of wealth to the Songhai Empire.
Effect- He made a well organized army. -
Period: Feb 2, 1483 to Feb 2, 1547
Martin Luther
Cause- A German monk who moved with a group called lutherans. He nailed a list of 95 thesis on the church door stating the church corruption in anger.
Effect- The lutherans seperated themselves from the catholic church. He made a new theology and their own interpretations of the bible. -
Nov 5, 1487
Dias' voyage into Indian Ocean
Cause- He wanted to joing Diogo de Azambuja to the Gold coast.
Effect- He helped find the southeastern water route between western Europe and Asia. Also he discoverd the cape of good hope and opened the sea route to the Indian ocean. -
Period: Aug 3, 1492 to Mar 4, 1493
Columbus' Fist Voyage
Cause- To find a new faster trade route to Asia from Europe
Effect- He found the Americans and a plethora of new foods, animals (like the turkey) corn and potatoes. -
Nov 20, 1492
Columbian Exchange
Cause- Christopher Columbus had discovered the new world and other Europeans had followed his path
Effect- New crops, livestock, ideas, religions, and diseases. -
Period: Feb 2, 1501 to
Safavid Empire
Cause- The Islamic empire empire challenged the Ottomans and Mughals since they were strong enough. Thus the Safavid Empire.
Effect- The Safavid Empire promoted trade, which had an effect on gun powder empires. -
Period: Feb 2, 1509 to Nov 2, 1564
John Calvin
Cause- A minister in France while the protestant reformation happened.
Effect- Formed calvinism the Christian theory during the 1500's -
Period: Feb 2, 1519 to Feb 2, 1521
Spanish Conquest of Mexico
Cause- The Spanish wanted gold. They conquered Mexico to ger rich.
Effect- Christianity explanded. The Compass was invented. Land was available for expansion. New agricultural foods were introduced like bananas and coffee. -
Period: Feb 2, 1520 to Feb 2, 1566
Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent
Cause- He governed certain cities in the Ottoman Empire became the next sultan at age 25 after the death of Selim.
Effect- Freed hundreds of slaves, gave his officers gifts, abd nade a school for slaves. In return he wanted complete loyalty from everyone. -
Period: Feb 2, 1545 to Feb 2, 1564
Council of Trent
Cause- A series of three meeting to set standars for the catholic church.
Effect- The establishment of the seminary system, and the impovement of education of the priests. -
Period: Feb 2, 1556 to
Reign of Akbar
Cause- When Akbar was 13 his father died so he took the throne.
Effect- He eliminated the Pashtuns military threats. He was a Mughl emperor. He used Arabian horses in his military system. -
Period: Feb 15, 1564 to
Galileo Galilei
Cause- He disovered his talent for mathematiccs; therefore, he became a math tutor, eventually a math professor.
Effect- He used his math knowledge along with technology skills to improve a spyglass'thus, building a telescope. -
Period: to
Tokugawa Shogunate
Cause- After the battle of Sekigahara the central authority went into the hands of Tokugawa leyasu.
Effect- It contributed to the economic success in Japan. -
Period: to
Thirty Years' War
Cause- A religious war with the protestants and the catholics in prague.
Effect- Germany was divided into many territories and principalities. -
Period: to
John Locke
Cause- He was the one that believed in the theory of "Natural Law" that guaranteed liberty to every person.
Effect- Jefferson used this theory as a reason for a revolution to stop King George's tyranny over the colonists in 1776 -
Period: to
Manchus Empire.
Cause- The war between the Quing Dynasty and the Machu clan.
Effect- It rewarded land- cultivation and lowered taxes. -
Period: to
Peter the Great.
Cause- He wanted Russia to accept social reforms
Effect- He moved the capital west to Saint Petersburg. -
Period: to
England's Glorious Revolution
Cause- James II became a catholic and tried to rule Britain without parliament.
Effect- Without there being bloodshed William and Mary were crowned King and Queen. -
Period: to
Russian Empire
Cause- It was made by a tribe called the Slavs. They replaced the capital of Moscow.
Effect- It created the CIS
