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Portuguese prince who promoted the srudy of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the westen coast.
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Genoese mariner who in the service of Spain led expeditions across the Atlantic. establishing contact between the peoples of the Americas and the Old World and the opening way to Spanish conquest and colonization.
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Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to INdia, opening an important commercial sea route.
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Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru.
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Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish exploration of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.
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A military adventurer who laid the basis for the Mughal Empire, he did this by conquering nearby regions until 1526.
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Cortes was a Spanish explorer and conquistador whol led the conquest of Axtec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.
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The exchange of plants, animals. disease, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages
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The intellectual movement in Europe, initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics, that by the seventeenth century had laid the groundwork for modern science.
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Iranian kingdom established by Ismail, who declared Itan a Shi'te state.
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Religous reform movement within the Latin Christian Church. It resulted in the "protesters" forming several new Christian denominations, including the Lutheran and reformed churches and the church.
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Excercising dominion over most of India in the sisxteenth century.
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Matteo was an Italian Jesuit priest. He is known as the " Servant of God" because he is one of the founding figures of the Jusuit China MIssion.
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Galileo was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philisopher. Galileo played a major role in the scientific revolution. Galileo invented the telescope.
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The last threee shogunates of Japan.
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The war was caused by a religous conflict between the Protestants and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire. This involved most of the European countries.
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The last imperial dynasty of China whichi was overthrown by revolutionaries during the Qing dynasty China was ruled by the Manchu.
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A philosophical movement in eighteenth century, Europe that fostered the belief that one could reform society by discovering rational laws that governed social behavior and that were just as scientific as the laws of physics.
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Russian tsar. He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite, moving the capital from Moscow to the new city of St. Petersburg.
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Its a trade between three regions in the Atlantic ocean . The best-known trading in the triangular trade is the slave trade.
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The Russian Empire grew under Catherines control. Thanks to Catherine, Russia was re-vitalized and was known as one of the great powers.