Dates Quiz Era 2

Question 1

First African slaves are brought to the Americas.

Answer 1

1502

Question 2

Height of the Aztec Empire

Answer 2

1480s

Question 3

Bartholomew Diaz rounds Cape of Good Hope

Answer 3

1488

Question 4

Columbus and Reconquista of Spain (Reconquista is the centralization of holdings in Spain. Ferdinand of Aragon married Isabella of Castile and together they conquered Granada in 1492)

Answer 4

1492

Question 5

Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation

Answer 5

1517

Question 6

Cortez conquers the Aztecs

Answer 6

1521

Question 7

First unsuccessful Ottoman seige (under Suleiman) of Vienna

Answer 7

1529

Question 8

Pizarro conquers the Inca

Answer 8

1533

Question 9

Silver is discovered at Potosi

Answer 9

1545

Question 10

First galleon sails from Mexico to Manila - starting the first big upswing in global trade

Answer 10

1571

Question 11

Battle of Lepanto where the Ottoman Navy is defeated

Answer 11

1571

Question 12

Second unsuccessful Ottoman seige (under Mehmet IV) of Vienna

Answer 12

1683

Question 13

Cape Colony (modern day Cape Town) founded by Dutch

Answer 13

1653

Question 14

Thirty Years War

Answer 14

1618 through 1648

Question 15

Battle of Sekigahara - Tokugawa Ieyasu and his forces defeat Toyotomi, establishing Tokugawa Shogunate

Answer 15

1600

Question 16

Ottomans conquere Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire falls

Answer 16

1453

Question 17

Guttenburg Printing Press in Europe

Answer 17

1450s

Question 18

Foundation of Jamestown

Answer 18

1607

Question 19

End of Ming Dynasty and beginning of Qing Dynasty

Answer 19

1644

Question 20

Glorious Revolution ends a century of political dispute in England and English Bill of Rights is signed by William and Mary

Answer 20

1689

Question 21

Spanish Armada is defeated by England’s navy

Answer 21

1588

Question 22

First Africans arrive in Virginia (modern day U.S.)

Answer 22

1619

Question 23

Shakespeare writes Hamlet

Answer 23

1601