1450 C.E. - 1750 C.E.

Iranian Empire resembling the Ottoman Empire in many ways and was built on it's royal tradition in pre-Islamic legends and the adoption of Shi'ism.

A well-educated Frenchman who went from studying law to theology after a religious conversion and became a highly influential Protestant leader. He simplified religious rituals even farther than Matin Luther and taught that salvation was a gift from God given to those He "predestined" for salvation.

Hernan Cortes set out to assault the Mexican mainland in search of slaves and establish trade and eventually captured the capital Tenochtitlan which was caused greatly by the spread of smallpox.

One of the greatest rulers of the Ottoman Empire remembered as a fierce conqueror of the Islamic Religion and while he was sultan, the Ottoman Empire reached it's peak and prosperity.

Land ruled by the Muslim minority that used it's power to control the majority of the Indian state during the 16th and 17th centuries.

Founded by Ignatius of Loyola, and Spanish nobleman, that helped to stem the Protestant help and win back some adherent through their teaching and preaching. The activities of this new religious order were very important to the Catholic Reformation.

The council of the Roman Catholic Church that focused its meetings on traditional Catholic beliefs and against the Protestants.

A Mughal ruler who strove for social harmony more than his hunger for more territory and money. He succeeded the throne at the age of thirteen and made himself the center of a new Divine Faith, consisting of Muslim, Hindu, Zoroastrian, Sikh, and Christian beliefs.

Galileo built and used a telescope with which he found that he could magnify objects thirty times higher from normal eye sight. He discovered and wrote that the earth was not alone in the universe and was very prone to change.

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty, beginning his rule at the age of nine. He was a very good ruler towards the beginning of his time but his work declined as time went on, witnessing the steady decline of the Dynasty.

The Spanish fleet sailing against England under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia intending to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I of England, ending her involvement in the Spanish Netherlands.

The time in Japanese history where the caste system was most severe, eventually leading to social unrest and the overthrowing of the Shogunate with the Emperor Meigi set as the replacement.

The Holy Roman Empire, France and England, engaged in many international conflicts consisting of conflict over power, leading monarchs to expend vast sums of money and caused widespread devastation and death. The Thirty Years War was the worst of many conflicts that cause long-lasting depopulation and economic decline in the Holy Roman Empire.

An English political philosopher who argued against the monarchial claims to absolute authority by divine right but that rulers should receive their authority from the people and were to be held by the law like all other citizens.

The empire established in China by the Manchu family after overthrowing the Ming Empire. The empire went on the conquer all former Ming territories, taiwan, the lower Amur River basin, Inner Mongolia, eastern Turkestan, and Tibet resulting in a state that was more than twice the size of the former Ming Empire.

The series of signed peace treaties that ended the Thirty Years War in the Holy Roman Empire and the Eighty Years war between Spain and the Dutch Republic.

A series of wars fought between France and England. England took the French capital of Quebec leading to the French forces in Canada to surrender and a peace agreement where France gave Canada to the English and Louisiana to Spain.

Australia was chosen by Britain to become the new colony of Great Britain after the Revolutionary War with the American colonies. Britain used convict labor to build up the infrastructure of the new colony instead of using slave labor.

The French slave revolt in the French colony Saint-Domingue which eliminated slavery and founded the Haitian Republic. This is considered the most successful slave rebellion in the Americas and changed history for Africans in the New World.

Britain banned slave trade and followed through by creating harsh fines for any slave found aboard a British ship. The Royal Navy then tried to stop other nations from participating in the Atlantic Slave Trade because they found it equal to piracy.