AP World History Unit 3 + 4 complete timeline

1405 CE - Zheng He, Western Seas, Ming China

______ began his first voyage to the “______” to promote tributary trade to ______.

1453 CE - Sultan Mehmet II, Constantinople, Istanbul

______ conquered the Byzantine capital, ______, renaming it ______.

1478 CE - Grand Duke Ivan III, Novgorod, Russians

The ______ defeated the principality of ______, and claimed to rule all of the ______.

1492 CE - Christopher Columbus, Americas, Bahamas

______, sponsored by Spain, reached the ______, making landfall in the ______.

1494 CE - Treaty of Tordesillas, Spain, Portugal

The ______ is signed, dividing the newly discovered lands between ______ and ______ .

1498 CE - Vasco da Gama, India, Asia, Portugal

______ reached the shores of ______, establishing a sea route to ______ for ______.

1501 CE - Safavid Dynasty, Ismail I, gunpowder, bureaucracy

The ______ was founded by ______ using ______ weapons and a modern ______.

1505 CE - Portuguese, Kilwa, Swahili Coast trade

The ______ established a fort at ______ in East Africa, expanding their influence in the ______.

1510 CE - Portuguese, Goa, Indian Ocean region

The ______ captured ______ in India, establishing a strategic base for trade and control in the ______.

1517 CE - Martin Luther, Protestant Reformation, Ninety-Five Theses

______ began the ______ with the publication of his ______.

1517 CE - Sultan Selim I, Egypt, Mecca, Medina, caliph

______ conquered ______ and the holy cities of ______ and ______ reinforcing his claim as ______.

1519 CE - Magellan, Spanish, East Indies, Asia

______ led the ______ expedition to the ______ across the Pacific to open a new maritime trade route to ______.

1521 CE - Hernán Cortés, Aztec Empire, Spain

______ conquered the ______ of Central America for ______.

1526 CE - Babur, India, Mughal

______ established a new state in northern ______, which would soon grow to become the ______ Empire.

1529 CE - Suleiman the Magnificent, Hapsburg, Vienna

Sultan ______ laid siege to the ______ capital of ______, but failed to capture it.

1543 CE - Portuguese, Japan

______ mariners are the first Europeans to reach ______.

1550s CE - Ivan IV, Kazan, Astrakhan

Under _____, Russia turned southward and conquered the Muslim Khanates of _____ and _____.

1550s CE - sugar plantations, Caribbean, sugar

Africans were forced to work on _____ in the _____ islands after the arrival of _____ to Brazil.

1556 CE - Akbar, Mughal, Bengal, Deccan

_____ led the _____ Empire’s expansion east into _____, and southwards to the central Indian _____.

1570 CE - Ming, silver

The _____ Empire required all taxes be paid in _____.

1571 CE - Spain, Philippines

_____ set up a colony in the _____ for trans-Pacific trade from its colonies in the Americas.

1588 CE - Britain, Spanish Armada

_____ defeats the ships of the _____ and becomes ruler of the Atlantic Ocean.

1595 CE - Shah Abbas I, ghulams

_____ built an army of enslaved people known as _____ from Christian slaves taken from Armenia and Georgia.

1600 CE - British East India, India

The _____ Company is established and sets up trading posts in _____.

1600s CE - time of troubles

The “_____” saw Russia fall into civil war, divided between two nobles who claimed the throne.

1608 CE - Samuel de Champlain, Quebec City

_____ founded _____, marking the beginning of permanent French settlement in Canada.

1613 CE - Michael Romanov, czar

A unified Russia re-emerged when a new ruler, _____, was elected as emperor, or _____.

1631 CE - Shahjahan, Taj Mahal, mausoleum

_____ began the building of the _____, a white marble _____ in memory of his wife Mumtaz Maha

1644 CE - peasant, Ming, Qing

As _____ uprisings contributed to the fall of the _____ Dynasty, the _____ Dynasty captured Beijing.

1650s CE - Safavids, Mughal

The _____ fought with the _____ Empire in their eastern provinces and in Afghanistan.

1652 CE - Calvinist Dutch farmers, southern Africa

_____ set up a colony in _____ near the Cape of Good Hope.

1657 CE - Aurangzeb, Sharia, jizya

_____ imposed _____ laws and brought back the _____ tax that Hindu residents had to pay in return for protection.

1664 CE - English, New Amsterdam, New York

The _____ captured _____ from the Dutch, renaming it _____, and solidifying English control in the region.

1682 CE - Robert Cavelier, Mississippi

_____, Sieur de La Salle, reaches the mouth of the _____ River, claiming the entire river basin for France.

1721 CE - Peter the Great, Sweden, Baltic Coast

Under Czar _____, a war with _____ finally led to the annexation of the _____.

1722 CE - Yongzheng, Qing

The _____ Emperor cracked down on corruption and reformed the financial administration of the _____ Empire.

1722 CE - Shah, Safavid

The last _____ of the _____ Dynasty is deposed by Afghan rebels.

1735 CE - Qianlong, Turk, Mongol

The _____ Emperor conducted a series of military campaigns that eliminated the _____ and _____ threats to China.