Timeline Test Study Guide: Period 4 (1450 - 1750) Format: 50% matching & 50% identification (short-answer) 1453 Ottomans capture Constantinople – circa 1480s Height of Aztec Empire – 1488 Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope – 1492 Columbus/Reconquista of – 1502 1st African slaves to Americas – 1517 Martin Luther/95 Theses – 1521 Cortez conquered the Aztecs – 1529 1st unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna Suleiman – – 1533 Pizarro toppled the Inca – 1545 Discovery of silver at Potosi – 1571 Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans) – 1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British – 1600 Battle of Sekigahara (beginning of Tokugawa Shogunate) – 1607 Foundation of Jamestown – 1618-1648 30 War – 1644 End of Ming/Beginning of Qing Dynasty – 1653 Cape Town colony founded (Dutch) – 1683 2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (Mehmet IV) – 1689 Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights –
Timeline Test Study Guide: Period 4 (1450 - 1750) Format: 50% matching & 50% identification (short-answer) 1453 – Ottomans capture Constantinople circa 1480s – Height of Aztec Empire 1488 – Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope 1492 – Columbus/Reconquista of 1502 – 1st African slaves to Americas 1517 – Martin Luther/95 Theses 1521 – Cortez conquered the Aztecs 1529 – 1st unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna – Suleiman 1533 – Pizarro toppled the Inca 1545 – Discovery of silver at Potosi 1571 – Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans) 1588 – Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British 1600 – Battle of Sekigahara (beginning of Tokugawa Shogunate) 1607 – Foundation of Jamestown 1618-1648 – 30 War 1644 – End of Ming/Beginning of Qing Dynasty 1653 – Cape Town colony founded (Dutch) 1683 – 2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (Mehmet IV) 1689 – Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights
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