Period Dates Semester 1

Ottomans capture Constantinople (Istanbul)

1453

Printing in Europe

1450s

Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue/Columbian Exchange begins/Reconquista of Spain

1492

Slaves to the Americas

1502

Protestant Reformation begins in Europe

1517

Cortez conquers the Aztecs

1521

Pizarro conquered the Incas

1533

Battle of Lepanto: Ottoman naval defeat

1571

Defeat of Spanish Armada by the British

1588

Japan unified under the Tokugawa Shogunate

1603

Cape Town colony founded by the Dutch

1653

Western Roman Empire Falls

476

Muslims in Spain

711

Split of Christian Church

1054

Beginning of the Crusades

1095

Rise of the Mongols

c1200s

Mongols sack Baghdad (end of Abbasid Caliphate and Golden Age)

1258

Travels of Marco Polo

1271-1295

Mansa Musa’s (Mali Empire) pilgrimage (hajj)

1324

Travels of Ibn Battuta

1325-1349

Bubonic Plague in Europe

1347-1348

Renaissance begins in Western Europe

C1400

end of Zheng He’s Ming Dynasty voyages/Rise of the Ottomans

1433

Rise of the Incas

1438

Period 0

to 1200

Period 1

c1200-1450