Unit 4 Timeline

Question 1

Polynesian settlement of Pacific islands

Answer 1

300 BCE-1000 CE

Question 2

Polynesian have sporadic contacts with American mainland

Answer 2

By 1000

Question 3

Polynesian societies in Hawaii, Tonga, and elsewhere develop clear class structure with hereditary chiefs

Answer 3

1200-1300

Question 4

Magellan expedition

Answer 4

1519-1522

Question 5

Viking voyages

Answer 5

770-1200

Question 6

European settlement of Madeira, Azores, Canaries

Answer 6

1300s

Question 7

Mali voyages in the Atlantic Ocean

Answer 7

Early 1300s

Question 8

Voyages of Henry the Navigator

Answer 8

1418-1460

Question 9

First enslaved people from West Africa sent to Europe

Answer 9

1440s

Question 10

Portuguese at Gold Coast and Kongo

Answer 10

1482

Question 11

Portuguese at Benin

Answer 11

1486

Question 12

Bartolomeu Dias reaches Indian Ocean

Answer 12

1488

Question 13

Columbus reaches Caribbean

Answer 13

1492

Question 14

Spanish conquer Hispaniola

Answer 14

1492-1500

Question 15

Columbus returns to Caribbean (second voyage)

Answer 15

1493

Question 16

Columbus reaches mainland of South America (third voyage)

Answer 16

1498

Question 17

Cabral reaches Brazil

Answer 17

1500

Question 18

Cortés conquers Aztec Empire

Answer 18

1519-1521

Question 19

Pizarro conquers Inca Empire

Answer 19

1531-1533

Question 20

Rebellion of Manco Inca in Peru

Answer 20

1536

Question 21

Development and integration of Southeast Asian maritime markets

Answer 21

350-1000

Question 22

Voyages of Zheng He

Answer 22

1405-1433

Question 23

Vasco da Gama reaches India

Answer 23

1497-1498

Question 24

Portuguese bombard Swahili Coast cities

Answer 24

1505

Question 25

Portuguese take Goa

Answer 25

1510

Question 26

Portuguese take Malacca

Answer 26

1511

Question 27

Portuguese take Hormuz

Answer 27

1515

Question 28

Portuguese take Diu

Answer 28

1535

Question 29

Portuguese defeat Ottoman fleet

Answer 29

1538

Question 30

Portuguese aid Ethiopia

Answer 30

1539

Question 31

Smallpox arrives in Caribbean

Answer 31

1518

Question 32

Creation of Viceroyalty of New Spain

Answer 32

1535

Question 33

Creation of Viceroyalty of Peru

Answer 33

1540s

Question 34

New Laws attempt to improve treatment of Amerindians

Answer 34

1542

Question 35

Silver discovered at Potosí, Bolivia

Answer 35

1545

Question 36

Population of Potosí reaches 120,000

Answer 36

1625

Question 37

Last Habsburg ruler of Spain dies

Answer 37

1700

Question 38

First Bourbon ruler of Spain crowned

Answer 38

1713

Question 39

Sugar agriculture introduced

Answer 39

1530s

Question 40

Era of Amerindian slavery

Answer 40

1540-1600

Question 41

Sugar begins to dominate the economy

Answer 41

After 1540

Question 42

African slave trade provides the majority of plantation workers

Answer 42

By 1620

Question 43

Quilombo of Palmares founded

Answer 43

1630s

Question 44

First capital of Brazilian colony established in Salvador da Bahia

Answer 44

1649

Question 45

Reforms of marquis de Pombal

Answer 45

1750-1777

Question 46

Creation of Viceroyalty of Brazil with capital in Rio de Janeiro

Answer 46

1775

Question 47

Jamestown founded

Answer 47

1607

Question 48

Plymouth founded

Answer 48

1620

Question 49

Population of the enslaved in Virginia begins period of rapid grwoth

Answer 49

1660

Question 50

English take New York from Dutch

Answer 50

1664

Question 51

French and Indian War

Answer 51

1754-1763

Question 52

English defeat French at Quebec

Answer 52

1759

Question 53

Jacques Cartier's voyages to explore Newfoundland and Gulf of St. Lawrence

Answer 53

1534-1542

Question 54

Quebec founded

Answer 54

1608

Question 55

Louisiana founded

Answer 55

1699

Question 56

English take Canada

Answer 56

1760

Question 57

Metacom's War

Answer 57

1675-1676

Question 58

Pueblo Revolt

Answer 58

1680

Question 59

French Campaign against Irogouis

Answer 59

1701

Question 60

Stono Rebellion in South Carolina

Answer 60

1739

Question 61

Tacky's Slave Rebellion in Jamaica

Answer 61

1760

Question 62

Tupac Amaru II uprising

Answer 62

1780

Question 63

Peasant Revolt in Europe

Answer 63

1525

Question 64

The Fronde in France

Answer 64

1648-1653

Question 65

Glorious Revolution

Answer 65

1698

Question 66

Cossack Revolt

Answer 66

1772

Question 67

Battle of al-Qasr al-Kabir

Answer 67

1578