global timeline
Category: Other
Updated: 5 Dec 2020
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Created byJamie Dinh
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Martin Luther and the 95 Theses
October 31, 1517
• German priest, professor of theology, monk,
and composer
• Posted 95 Theses on the Castle Church door
in Wittenberg, Germany
• Acknowledged the Church's corruption
• Started the Protestant ReformationSuleiman the Magnificent 1520
• Ottoman Empire sultan
• Reigned for 46 years
• Led 13 campaigns & was greatly feared
• Expanded the empire through conquest
• Made law codesTriangle Trade (late 16th - early 19th centuries)
• Three legs in the journey
• 1st leg: Europe (manufactured goods) -> Africa
• 2nd leg: Africa (slaves) -> Americas
• 3rd leg: Americas (raw goods) -> EuropeCapitalism
• Economic and political system
• Private businesses own capital goods and
services
• Supply and demandSlave Trade-Middle Passage
• Enslaved Africas
• West Africa to West Indies
• Atlantic Slave Trade
• Part of the Triangular TradeExploration
• New World discovered in 1492
• Attempt to search for a route to Asia
• Introduced to new raw goods
• Portugal led the explorationSpain & Portugal build Empires in the New World
• Treaty of Tordesillas
• Split South America between them
• New spices, gold, and silver
• Cash cropsPeriods
Renaissance 14th century - 17th century
• Rediscovery of Greek and Roman texts
• Arrival of humanism
• Revival in classical ways of thinking
• Era of new arts, literature, architecture,
and philosophyProtestant Reformation (1517 - 1648)
• Religious, political, and cultural movement
• Questioned the Church's authority
• Encouraged education
• Led to new branches of ProtestantinismThirty Years’ War (1618 - 1648)
• Civil war within the Church
• Between Protestants and Roman Catholics
• Fought over the right to govern Europe
• Peace of Westphalia ended the war
• Over 8 million deathsScientific Revolution (1543 - 1687)
• Modern developments in mathematics, biology, chemistry, astronomy, and physics
• Scientific MethodAge of Enlightenment (1715 - 1789)
• Use of reason, the scientific method, and progress
• Breaking away from their old traditions
• Monarchies to societies with liberty
• Influenced Europeans' ideas in the 17th&18th centuries
• Also called the Age of Reason
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