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Turkish dynasty that ruled the Ottoman Empire from the 13th century.
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Llocated in western Africa from the early 15th to the late 16th century,
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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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Ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1444 to September 1446, then again from February 1451 to 1481. Recognized as the first Sultan to codify criminal and constitutional law.
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Henry the Navigator established a slave market in 1445.Slaves were brought back to Portugal.By 1455, 800 Africans were brought to Portugal annually.
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Sunni Ali was the King of Songhay during it’s growth into the largest, most powerful empire in West Africa.
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He was a German monk, priest, professor of theology and played a major role in the Protestant Reformation.He had taught that the entrance to salvation was based solely on faith in God.
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He sailed around the tip of Africa to find the Indian Ocean.
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The beginning of his great adventure where he was planning on finding a more faster route to Asia.
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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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Used land grants to support its cavalry and population spoke several languages.
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A French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation.
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Cortés allied with a number of the tributaries and rivals of the Aztecs, including the Totonacs, and the Tlaxcaltecas.
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One of the greatest rulers of the Ottoman Empire remembered as a fierce conqueror of the Islamic Religion.
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Emperors were Muslims and direct descendants of Genghis Khan through Chagatai Khan and Timur.
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Helped to stem the Protestant help and win back some of the lost through their teaching and preaching. The activities of this new religious order were very important to the Catholic Reformation.
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A council that met at the city of Trent, in nothern Italy, in three sessions between 1545 and 1563.Distinguished proper Catholic doctrines from Protestant "errors." Pope's supremacy affirmed.Each diocese required to have a residential bishop and training hull for priests.
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Akbar was 13 years old when he inherited the Mughal throne. Was a descendant of Ghengis Khan.
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Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution.
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The emperor of the Ming Dynasty, beginning his rule at the age of nine.
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Great fleet sent by Philip II of Spain in 1588 to invade England.
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Ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family. Period of time was known as the Edo period.
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A war waged in the early seventeenth century that involved France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, and numerous states of Germany.
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Argued that the government was supposed to protect the people's rights and that people were allowed to rebel if the government did not do so.
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The Manchus family ruled and advanced Chinese institutions and philosophy to higher level than Yuan Dynasty.
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The series of signed peace treaties that ended the Thirty Years War in the Holy Roman Empire and the Eighty Years war between Spain and the Dutch Republic.
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A series of wars fought between France and England.
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Settlement of New South Wales was established.
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The French slave revolt in the French colony founded the Haitian Republic. Most successful slave rebellion in the Americas.
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Britain banned slave trade and followed through by creating harsh fines for any slave found aboard a British ship. The Royal Navy then tried to stop other nations from participating in the Atlantic Slave Trade because they found it equal to piracy.
