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If an event or timespan happens or begins/ends on January 1st, then I didn't find the specific date only the year. The events that take place on Jan. 1st, 1450 are things that are applicable to the entire unit (not just one date).
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This dude funded a lot of voyages and layed the groundwork for Europeans getting around Africa.
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Zheng He was the the Chinese fleet admiral to the Yongle Emperor and led expeditionary voyages in the Indian Ocean. He commanded a massive fleet who's flagships were 120 meters long (compared to the Santa Maria's 26 meters).
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The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty.
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A sultan of the Ottoman Empire, he conquered Constantinople at the age of 21. He also extended the Ottoman Empire into Anatolia.
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A diaspora is a scattered population whose origin lies within a smaller geographic locale. Diaspora can also refer to the movement of the population from its original homeland. Diaspora has come to refer particularly to historical mass dispersions of an involuntary nature, such as the Trans-Atlantic African Slave Trade.
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Neo-Confucianism was an attempt to create a more rationalist and secular form of Confucianism by rejecting superstitious and mystical elements of Taoism and Buddhism that had influenced Confucianism during and after the Han Dynasty.
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Triangular trade or triangle trade is a historical term indicating trade among three ports or regions. The best-known triangular trading system is the transatlantic slave trade, that operated from the late 16th to early 19th centuries, carrying slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between West Africa, Caribbean or American colonies and the European colonial powers, with the northern colonies of British North America, especially New England, sometimes taking over the role of Europe.
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The ruler of the Songhai Empire who brought it to its largest and most powerful state.
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Attributed as the founder of modern political science. Wrote a book which inspired much of it, "The Prince".
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A Spanish conquistador who killed Atahualpa, conquering the Incan Empire and claiming it's lands for Spain.
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The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition, was established in 1478 by Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile. It was intended to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms and to replace the Medieval Inquisition, which was under Papal control.
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A dissident of the Catholic Church he posted his Ninety-Five Theses that rebuked the church and challenged their authority. He and his teachings caused the Reformation.
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A Spanish conquistador in the first wave of Spanish colonizers, he conquered a large portion of Central America, and brought down the Aztec Empire.
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The founder of the Safavid dynasty in Persia. He unified all of Iran as well.
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Bart was the first European explorer to reach the Indian Ocean by traveling around what is now the Cape of Good Hope.
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Columbus sails across the Atlantic Ocean and becomes the man credited with the discovery of the Americas, despite the millions of people already living there, as well as the fact that Leif Erikson discovered them hundreds of years earlier.
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A period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds. Exchanges of plants, animals, diseases and technology transformed European and Native American ways of life.
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The Treaty of Tordesillas divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and the Crown of Castile, along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa.
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The tenth, and longest reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
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The first European to reach the Indian Ocean by sea. (traveling around Africa)
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The last Incan emperor before the Spanish conquest, his execution effectively ended the Incan Empire.
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The ninth and last ruler of the Aztec Empire, and brought the empire to it's greatest size ever. Was killed by Hernán Cortés and his men.
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An influential Reformist theologian
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Vasco de Balboa (ca.1475-1519) becomes the first European explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean from the New World.
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The Battle of Chaldiran ended with a decisive victory for the Ottoman Empire over the Safavid Empire. As a result, the Ottomans annexed eastern Anatolia and northern Iraq from Safavid Iran for the first time.
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A schism from the Roman Catholic Church initiated by Martin Luther.
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Magellan leads the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe, but does not complete the journey himself. He dies en route, at the Battle of Mactan in the Philippines.
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Ignatius and six other young men, including Francis Xavier and Peter Faber, gathered and professed vows of poverty, chastity, and later obedience, including a special vow of obedience to the Pope in matters of mission direction and assignment. His Society was canonized by Pope Paul III in 1540
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The third emperor of the Mughal Empire in India, and one of it's greatest rulers. Extended his influence to encompass the entire Indian subcontinent.
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The first and founding shogun in the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan.
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Before his death, Copernicus' book "On The Revolutions of Celestial Spheres" which held the theory for a new cosmology, was published.
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A priest who was the first European to be invited into the Forbidden City of Beijing. He was the most prominent Jesuit priest to work in China and helped translate Confucian classics to Latin.
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A great scientist who played a major role in the scientific revolution. Deemed the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of scientific method", and the "father of science".
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Considered one of the greatest Chinese emperors, he suppressed several revolts, including the Revolt of the Three Feudatories. He was the longest-reigning Chinese emperor in history and brought about a golden age, the "High Qing" era.
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A business, often backed by a government charter, that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many investors.
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The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
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Quebec City is one of the oldest European settlements in North America. While many of the major cities in Latin America date from the sixteenth century, among cities in Canada and the U.S., few were created earlier than Quebec.
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Dutch Learning is a body of knowledge developed by Japan through its contacts with the Dutch enclave of Dejima, which allowed Japan to keep abreast of Western technology and medicine in the period when the country was closed to foreigners
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Louis XIV had the longest reign of any European monarch and led his country to become one of the foremost powers of the Western world.
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Ridicules the established Catholic Church, advocates freedom of speech and freedom of religion, roasts everyone who crosses him.
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The longest de facto ruler of China and the one to bring Qing China to it's largest and most prosperous ever. The sixth Qing emperor.
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Influences modern political philosophy and educational thought.
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The Seven Years' War was a war fought between 1754 and 1763, the main conflict occurring in the seven-year period from 1756 to 1763. It involved every European great power of the time except the Ottoman Empire.
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