Dates Quiz: Era 2 (Unit 3 & 4)

1502

First African slaves to Americas

1480s

Height of Aztec Empire

1488

Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope

1492

Columbus/Reconquista of Spain

1517

Martin Luther/Protestant Reformation

1521

Cortez conquered the Aztecs

1529

First unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (under Suleiman)

1533

Pizarro toppled the Inca

1545

Discovery of silver at Potosi

1571

First Manila Galleon (start of global trade) & Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans)

1683

2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (Mehmet IV)

1653

Cape Town colony founded by Dutch

1618-1648

Thirty Years War

1600

Battle of Sekigahara (beginning of Tokugawa Shogunate)

1453

Ottomans capture Constantinople. Fall of the Byzantine Empire

1450s

Gutenberg--Printing Press in Europe

1607

Foundation of Jamestown

1644

End of Ming Dynasty/Beginning of Qing Dynasty

1689

Glorious Revolution /English Bill of Rights

1588

Spanish Armada

1619

First Africans arrive in Virginia

1601

Hamlet by William Shakespeare was written