Unit 3 Timeline

He was a Muslim eunuch who led naval voyages for Emperor Yongle of China.

Prince Henry was interested in African trade and wished to capture ports on the Portuguese coast of Africa.

He was the first European to widely use a printing press.

This place was used as the imperial palace of China during the Ming and Ching dynasties.

He conquered Constantinople and ended Byzantine Empire.

The Spaniards once again bring down a great American civilization, the Incan Empire.

He is the first European to sail around Africa's southernmost tip.

Attempted to find a faster way to Spice trade, but ended up reaching the Americas instead.

The city is captured due to naval attack and bombardment.

He was the first European to sail from Europe directly to India.

He was the Aztec ruler during the invasion of Hernan Cortes.

He wrote the book the Prince.

He led the Spanish expedition that brought down the Incas.

He was the Prussian astronomer and mathematician who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe.

He was the first European to lead an expedition that reached the Pacific Ocean from the New World.

Spain was and may always be a major supporter of Catholicism.

He was the first man to circumnavigate the Earth.

Method is used to mainain Orthodoxy of Catholics. Methods include burning heretics.

He wrote the 95 Theses.

He led the Spanish expedition that brought down the Aztec Empire.

He founded the Safavid dynasty.

He founded the Jesuits.

This was the exchange of people,animals, goods, and diseases due to a need for labor for mass production and monopolization of markets.

He was known as the law giver.

This treaty was used to divide the uncharted worlds as possesions between Spain and Portugal using an imaginary line running from pole to pole.

He was the last emperor of the Inca prior to Spanish conquest.

Africans are dispersed due to internal and external influences having to do with the slave trade.

The Safavid dynasty was mainly comprised of Shia muslims.

This is trade between Europe, Africa, and the British colonies.

He founded Calvanism.

Ottomans beat the Safavids.

Martin Luther is a main advocate for the reformation of the Catholics to turn Protestant, for he believes faith alone will get them to heaven.

Dutch peoples hail from the Netherlands. They were the only people allowed to make port in Japan after the expellment of the Europeans and Christians (mainly one and the same).

The Mughal empire was located in India.

He was a tolerant Mughal ruler.

He was the first king of Songhay.

He united Japan.

This was the Catholics response to the Protestant Reformation starting with the formation of the Council of Trent.

This was created by Charles the fifth to learn what the Catholic Church needs to fix in order to not get people to reform to Protestantism.

He was an Italian Jesuit priest who went to Japan.

The English were one of the first peoples to create a joint stock company.

He was an Italian philosopher who made improvements on the telescope and made observations leading to the creation of the laws of Inertia.

He wrote the book the Leviathan and was an English philosopher.

England and the Dutch both had their own East India Companies.

Japanese people during the reign of this shogunate were converting to Christianity thanks to the Jesuits.

This is the first permanent English settlement in the United States.

He was an English enlightenment thinker.

He was an absolutist ruler and king of France.

This was a way for the Japanese to keep up to date on European advancements when they had shut all of them, but the Dutch away.

This dynasty was ruled by the Manchurians, another group of nomadic peoples in Asia extorting their power through China.

This was an age of learning and questioning that spurred from the Protestant and Catholic Reformations.

He was a Qing dynasty emperor of China who brought China back to its cuktural and financial prosperity.

He made an effort to westernize Russia.

He was a French Enlightenment writer who attacked the Catholic Church.

He was the grandson of Kangxi.

He was a Genevan philosopher and composer of music during the Romantic time period.

He was a Scottish philosopher that wrote: Causes to the Wealth of Nations.

She was the longest leading female ruler of Russia.

This was a war between the Hapsburgs and Great Britian due to conflicted interests.

It is a province of Canada once ruled by both the French and the English.