AP World History: Unit 2: MKD Quiz 1

1453

Ottomans capture Constantinople

1450s

Printing Press in Europe (Gutenberg)

1480s

Height of Aztec Empire

1488

Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope

1492

Columbus to Americas/Reconquista of Spain

1502

1st African Slaves to Americas

1517

Martin Luther/Protestant Reformation

1519-1521

Cortez conquered the Aztecs

1521-1523

Magellan circumnavigates the Earth

1526

Mughal Empire is established

1529

1st unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (under Suleiman the Magnificent)

1533

Pizarro topples the Inca

1545

Discovery of silver at Potosi

1556

Akbar begins his successful rule of the Mughal Empire