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  1. Return to Patterns of World History 4e, Volume 2 Student Resources

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

correct incorrect Benin kingdom, West Africa

correct incorrect Ottoman capture of Constantinople

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

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

correct incorrect Beginning of Columbian Exchange

correct incorrect First African slaves taken to Caribbean

correct incorrect Nicolaus Copernicus formulates the heliocentric model

correct incorrect Martin Luther publishes his 95 theses; beginning of Protestant Reformation

correct incorrect Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Inca Empires

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

correct incorrect Matteo Ricci, first Jesuit missionary to arrive in China

correct incorrect Galileo Galilei formulates the mathematical law of falling bodies

correct incorrect Founding of Jamestown, Virginia

correct incorrect Isaac Newton unifies physics and astronomy

correct incorrect Edo, capital of Japan, world's largest city

correct incorrect Reign of Qianlong emperor, China

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