Americas
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, people, and ideas between the Old World and the New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
An agreement between the Spanish and Portuguese crowns that divided the Americas between the two empires
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Period of cultural, artistic, political, and economic rebirth in Europe that took place from the 14th to the 17th centuries. It was a time of great intellectual and artistic achievement, and is considered to have bridged the gap between the Middle Ages and the modern era.
What is the Renaissance?
The capture of the Byzantine Empire's capital by the Ottoman Empire in 1453.
What was the Fall of Constantinople?
A period of regional cooling that occurred between 1350 and 1850 in the North Atlantic Region.
What was the Little Ice Age?
The Spanish conquered the an empire in 1521 after a 93-day siege of the empires capital, Tenochtitlan.
What was the Conquest of the Aztecs?
A series of seven expeditions led by a Chinese admiral during the Ming Dynasty. He traveled across Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, and East Africa, promoting trade, diplomacy, and Chinese influence.
What were the Voyages of Zheng He?
The first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law.
What is the Magna Carta?
A time in European history that lasted from the 5th to the late 15th centuries (From the collapse of the Roman civilization to the Renaissance).
What were the Middle Ages?
An intellectual movement in the 17th and 18th centuries that emphasized reason and science over faith and superstition.
What was the Enlightenment?
Francisco Pizarro and the Spanish conquistadors conquered an Empire in the 16th century.
Conquest of the Incas
794–1185 was a time of cultural and artistic flourishing in Japan, and is considered the country's "Golden Age"
What is the Heian Period?
Split of the Christian Church during 1504.
What is the Great Schism?
A period of significant scientific and intellectual change that occurred in Europe between the 16th and 17th centuries.
What was the Scientific Revolution?
A document that established constitutional and civil rights, limited the power of the monarchy, and strengthened the rights of individuals.
What was the English Bill of Rights?
Uprising by a group of Native Americans against Spanish colonizers in 1680.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
From 1467 - 1603, a time of conflict between feudal lords (daimyos). The period was also by the rise of powerful regional warlords, the use of new military strategies, and the development of samurai culture.
- Also known as the Sengoku period
What was the Warring States period?
A series of laws passed by the British Parliament to regulate trade and shipping between England and its colonies.
What are the Navigation Acts?
Four transatlantic expeditions of an Italian navigator/explorer. The expeditions led to the knowledge of the New World.
What were the Voyages of Columbus?
A series of treaties signed in 1648 that ended the Thirty Years' War and the Dutch War of Independence.
What was the Peace of Westphalia?
A series of conflicts between Jamaicans and the British that took place over several decades.
What are the Maroon Wars?
Largest battle of Japanese feudal history.
What was the Battle of Sekigahara?
A series of battles fought in Europe from 1618 to 1648. - Conflict between Catholic and Protestant states in the Holy Roman Empire that eventually became a war over who would control Europe.
What was the Thirty Years War?
A series of campaigns by Christian states to recapture territory from the Muslims.
What was the Reconquista?