Dates Quiz Era 2 Flashcards
First African slaves are brought to the Americas.
1502
Height of the Aztec Empire
1480s
Bartholomew Diaz rounds Cape of Good Hope
1488
Columbus and Reconquista of Spain (Reconquista is the centralization of holdings in Spain. Ferdinand of Aragon married Isabella of Castile and together they conquered Granada in 1492)
1492
Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation
1517
Cortez conquers the Aztecs
1521
First unsuccessful Ottoman seige (under Suleiman) of Vienna
1529
Pizarro conquers the Inca
1533
Silver is discovered at Potosi
1545
First galleon sails from Mexico to Manila - starting the first big upswing in global trade
1571
Battle of Lepanto where the Ottoman Navy is defeated
1571
Second unsuccessful Ottoman seige (under Mehmet IV) of Vienna
1683
Cape Colony (modern day Cape Town) founded by Dutch
1653
Thirty Years War
1618 through 1648
Battle of Sekigahara - Tokugawa Ieyasu and his forces defeat Toyotomi, establishing Tokugawa Shogunate
1600