M-WHAP Important Dates 1450-1750

Question 1

Ottomans capture Constantinople, Byzantine Empire falls

Answer 1

1453

Question 2

Gutenberg Printing Press in Europe

Answer 2

1450s

Question 3

Height of the Aztec Empire

Answer 3

1480s

Question 4

Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope

Answer 4

1488

Question 5

Columbus/Reconquista of Spain

Answer 5

1492

Question 6

1st African slaves to the Americas

Answer 6

1502

Question 7

Martin Luther/Protestant Reformation

Answer 7

1517

Question 8

Cortez conquered the Aztecs

Answer 8

1521

Question 9

Mughal Empire in India begins

Answer 9

1526

Question 10

1st unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (under Suleiman)

Answer 10

1529

Question 11

Pizarro toppled the Inca

Answer 11

1533

Question 12

Copernicus; Scientific Rev begins

Answer 12

1543

Question 13

Discovery of silver at Potosi

Answer 13

1545

Question 14

Battle of Lepanto (Ottoman naval defeat to European coalition)

Answer 14

1571

Question 15

1st Manila Galleon (global trade)

Answer 15

1571

Question 16

Spanish Armada

Answer 16

1588

Question 17

Battle of Sekigahara (beginning of the Tokugawa Shogunate)

Answer 17

1600

Question 18

Founding of Jamestown, Virginia

Answer 18

1607

Question 19

30 years war

Answer 19

1618-1648

Question 20

End of Ming/beginning of Qing

Answer 20

1644

Question 21

Cape Town colony founded (Dutch)

Answer 21

1653

Question 22

2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (Mehmet IV)

Answer 22

1683

Question 23

Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights

Answer 23

1689