Untitled Flashcards Set

622 Founding of Islam
c. 730 Printing invented in China
1206 Genghis Khan begins Mongol conquests
1271-1295 Marco Polo’s travels
1279-1368 Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China
1324 Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage/hajj
1325-1349 Travels of Ibn Battuta
1347-1348 Bubonic plague in Europe
1368-1644 Ming Dynasty
1405-1433 Zheng He’s 7 voyages

1453 Ottomans capture Constantinople
1450s Printing Press in Europe (Gutenberg)
1488 Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope
1502 1st African Slaves to Americas
1517 Martin Luther/Protestant Reformation
1519-1521 Cortez conquered the Aztecs
1588 Spanish Armada defeated by Queen Elizabeth
of England (Begins English Naval Supremacy)
1600 Beginning of Tokugawa Shogunate (Battle of
Sekigahara)
1644-1911 Qing Dynasty
1653 Cape Town colony founded (Dutch)