AP Euro Dates 32-1500

Prince Henry the Navigator opens up a Naval Academy in Portugal

1419

Newly unified Russia, gov't starts to centralize

1480

origins of Christianity; missionary spirit

32

Petrarch - Father of Humanism

1304-1374

Johannes Guttenberg invents the printing press - moveable type

1450

start of a new movement that focused on secular vs. religious, starts to glorify the individual; vernacular replaces Latin

1304-1374

Collapse of Byzantine Empire in Eastern Euro

1453

Columbus explores the Atlantic Ocean

1492

Constantinople is rebranded Istanbul

1453

Vasco De Gama reaches India and brings cinnamon and pepper back to Euro

1498

End of the Golden Horde in Russia; Ivan the Great becomes the first tsar

1480

Bubonic Plague, 1/3 of Euro population dies

1347-1348

Marco Polo to China

1271-1295

Euro experiences a transfer of knowledge from Jewish and Muslin scholars: learn of the magnetic compass, astrolabe, lateen sail, and cartography

1419

Treaty of Tordesillas; Pope divides the world between Spain and Portugal

1495

Peasant Revolt in England; result of labor shortage and tax increases due to plague, feudalism starts to dissolve

1381

Reconquista: Jews and Muslims are kicked out of Spain - Jews go to Amsterdam, Jews and Muslims go to Constantinople (Ottoman Empire, aka Istanbul)

1492

Portuguese enter the Indian Ocean, ending ~1000 years of peaceful trade

1498

Eastern Euro is no longer governed by Christians

1453

Euro learns of China - demand for Chinese luxury goods

1271-1295

City becomes capital of Byzantine Empire, crossroads for trade

333

1st schism in Christian church, Orthodox in the East, Roman Catholic in the West

1054

Euro is politically fragmented, lacking in centralized gov't, it's all Christian

c. 500-1500

1st Crusade to free the Holy Lands Arabs & Europeans coming into contact w/ one another

1095

Constantinople built to be the "New Rome;" becomes capital of Byzantine Empire (Eastern Euro)

333

Charlemagne rules the Holy Roman Empire in Europe until 1806 when Napoleon takes the crown

800

Collapse of the Roman Empire; cities, trade, and knowledge all but disappear

476

Middle Ages in Euro

c. 500-1500

Dias enters the I.O, rounding the cape of good hope

1488

Portuguese end peaceful trade in the I.O

1498

Papal line of demarcation drawn

1495