MKD Era 2

Ottomans capture Constantinople (removed Christian defense against muslim expansion)

1453

Printing Press in Europe (Gutenberg) (disseminated knowledge and religion quicker)

1450s

Height of Aztec Empire (Controlled huge trade network and was the most powerful state in Mesoamerica)

1480s

Dias Rounds Cape of Good Hope (Established Portugal as leaders in African and eastern trade)

1488

Columbus/Reconquista of Spain (Opened path for colonization)

1492

1st African Slaves to Americas (Slavery)

1502

Martin Luther/ Protestant Reformation (Split Christianity into further factions- Protestant)

1517

Cortez conquered Aztecs (Further Spanish colonization)

1519-1521

Magellan circumnavigates the Earth (Confirmed that the world was a globe and furthered Portuguese domination)

1521-1523

1st unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (Suleiman the Magnificent) (end of turkish expansion)

1529

Pizarro topples the Inca (Began European colonization of South America)

1533

Discovery of silver at Potosi (Core of Spanish's wealth- helped globalization)

1545

Battle of Lepanto (Ottoman naval defeat) (Final blow of Ottoman expansion)

1571

1st Manila Galleon (global trade of silver) (Communication between Spain and Phillipine colony)

1571

Spanish Armada (Secured Protestant Christian rule and elevated Queen Elizabeth)

1588

Battle of Sekigahara (beginning of Tokugawa Shogunate, biggest samurai fight)

1600

Foundation of Jamestown (First permanent English settlement in America)

1607

30 Years War (Famine and lessened Catholic power)

1618-1648

Qing Dynasty (Conquest of Mongols, Tibet, and Muslims)

1644-1911

Cape Town colony founded (Depot for Dutch East India Company)

1653

2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (Mehmet IV) (ended ottoman domination)

1683

Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights (Gave Parliament power of Monarchy)

1689