World Period Four Timeline Exercise

1440-1897

1453

1492

1498

ca. 1500

1511

1514

1517

1521, 1533

1542-1605

1577

1604

1607

1687

1720

1736-1795

Akbar, the most innovative of the Mughal rulers (India)

Beginning of Columbian Exchange

Matteo Ricci, first Jesuit missionary to arrive in China

Founding of Jamestown, Virginia

Galileo Galilei formulates the mathematical law of falling bodies

Martin Luther publishes his 95 theses; beginning of Protestant Reformation

Edo, capital of Japan, world's largest city

Spanish conquest of Granada, expulsion of Jews, and discovery of the Americas

Reign of Qianlong emperor, China

Isaac Newton unifies physics and astronomy

Vasco da Gama's circumnavigation of Africa and journey to India

Ottoman capture of Constantinople

Nicolaus Copernicus formulates the heliocentric model

Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Inca Empires

First African slaves taken to Caribbean

Benin kingdom, West Africa

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