World History DTR 1-20

Pax Mongolica

1250-1360s

Italian Renaissance: rebirth classics arts & literature

1300-1500

Mail King Mansa Musa makes pilgrimage to Mecca

1324

Bubonic Plague in Europe

1346-1353

Rise of Ming: expansion of trade w/ west

1368

Voyages of Zheng He on Indian Ocean

1405-1433

Aztecs: chinampas & human sacrifices; Inca: roads & mit’a

14th-16th C

Constantinople falls to Ottoman Turks → Byzantine falls

1453

Spain Unifies, Columbus →Columbian Exchange, Moors driven out

1492

Da Gama sails to India

1498

Battle of Chaldiran (Sunni Ottoman defeat Shia Safavids)

1514

Protestant Reformation → wars of religion in Europe

1517

Arrival of Conquistadors in Mexico: encomienda & hacienda

1519

Mughal Empire; Akbar (tolerant),Shah Jahan (Taj Mahal), Aurangzeb (intolerant)

1526-1739

Single Whip tax (silver in China)

1570s

British East India Co. in India: beginning of Tokugawa

1600

Founding of Jamestown and start of slaves to N. America

1607

Sakoku Edict closes Japan

1635

Rise of Qing (mid-1800s Taiping, self-strengthening, Boxers)

1644

Enlightenment- liberalism, progress, natural rights: Peter the Great & westernization

Late 1600s