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Turkish dynasty that ruled the Ottoman Empire from the 13th century to its dissolution after World War I.
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A state located in western Africa. From the early 15th to the late 16th century, Songhai was one of the largest Islamic empires in history.
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An important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and the Age of Discoveries in total.
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Also Regined from 1451-1581. Conquered Constantinople and brought an end to the Byzantine Empire, transforming the Ottoman state into an empire.
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The first king of the Songhai Empire.
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Professor of theology and seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation.
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Born in 1450, Bartolomeu Dias was sent by Portuguese King John II to explore the coast of Africa and find a way to the Indian Ocean.
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columbus sets sail in february 1492, Columbus departed from Castilian Palos de la Frontera with three ships on his first voyage.
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Divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and Spain along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands.
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portugese shipped slaves from 1500 to 1800
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Was one of the most significant ruling dynasties of Iran. They ruled one of the greatest Persian empires after the Muslim conquest of Persia.
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A prominent French theologian during the Protestant Reformation and the father of the theological system known as Calvinism.
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Invasion began in February 1519, and was declared victorious on August 13, 1521, when a coalition army of Spanish conquistadors and Tlaxcalan warriors led by Hernán Cortés and Xicotencatl the Younger captured Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire.
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Suleyman the Magnificent has been known as one of the greatest rulers of the Ottoman Empire. He is mostly remembered as a fierce conqueror of the Islamic religion.
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Mogul Empire in traditional English usage, was an imperial power in the Indian subcontinent.
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Founded in 1540 by Saint Ignatius of Loyola,the Jesuits became renowned for its work in the fields of missionary outreach, direct evangelization, intellectual research, and education.
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A council of the Roman Catholic Church convened in Trento in three sessions between 1545 and 1563 to examine and condemn the teachings of Martin Luther and other Protestant reformers
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He was of Timurid descent, the son of Emperor Humayun, and the grandson of the Mughal Emperor Zaheeruddin Muhammad Babur, the ruler who founded the Mughal dynasty in India.
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In 1609, Galileo heard about the invention of the telescope in Holland. Without having seen an example, he constructed a superior version and made many astronomical discoveries.
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Ming Dynasty greatly declined during his reign, and came closer and closer to the perdition.
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fleet sent by Philip II of Spain in 1588 to invade England
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A feudal Japanese military government. The heads of government were the shoguns. Each was a member of the Tokugawa clan.
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One of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, and one of the longest continuous wars in modern history.
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Known as the Father of Classical Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers.
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Last imperial dynasty of China
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The Thirty Years War was ended by the Peace of Westphalia which was referred to as the "Peace of Exhaustion" by contemporaries.
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It involved most of the great powers of the time and affected Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines.
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Arrival of the First Fleet of British ships at Sydney to establish the penal colony
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A slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, which culminated in the elimination of slavery there and the founding of the Haitian republic.
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In 1807 the slave trade ended which stopped the triangle trade.
