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Mar 12, 1413
Johannes GutenBerg
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Mar 20, 1419
Atahualpa
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Mar 14, 1450
Triangle Trade
The best-known triangular trading system is the transatlantic slave trade, that operated from the late 16th to early 19th centuries. -
Oct 31, 1451
Christopher Columbus
Columbus's voyages led to the first lasting European contact with the Americas, inaugurating a period of European exploration, conquest, and colonization that lasted for several centuries. -
Mar 12, 1460
Prince Henry the navigator
He was responsible for the development of European exploration and maritime trade. -
Feb 19, 1473
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Jan 12, 1475
Vasco de Balboa
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Nov 10, 1483
Martian Luther
He challanged the Catholic church with his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517. -
Mar 14, 1492
Sunni Ali
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Mar 14, 1492
Columbian Exchange
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Jun 2, 1494
treaty of tordesillas
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May 29, 1500
Batolomeu Dias
Held an expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa in the hope of finding a trade route to India. -
Jul 10, 1509
John Calvin
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Aug 23, 1514
Battle of Chaldrian
A victory for the Ottoman Empire over the Safavid Empire. -
Mar 14, 1517
Protestant Reformation
The 16th-century schism within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, John Calvin and other early Protestants. -
Mar 12, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan
Held an expedition to sail from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific Ocean. -
Jun 29, 1520
Montezuma
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Mar 12, 1521
Niccolò Machiaveli
He wrote his masterpiece The Prince -
Dec 25, 1524
Vasco de Gama
The first European to reach India by sea. -
Jun 26, 1541
Pizarro and Cortez
When historians compare Pizarro's and Cortés's conquests of Peru and Mexico, they usually give the palm to Pizarro because he led fewer men, faced larger armies, and was far from Spanish outposts in the Caribbean which could have supplied men, arms, and provisions. -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Galilei
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Jun 23, 1582
Nobunaga
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Jamestown
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Louis XIV
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Voltaire
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East India Company
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Peter/Catherine the Great
Ruled during the golden age of Russia.
