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Volume 2: The Middle Ages c Flashcards

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Ferdinand and Isabella conquer Granada, ending the Reconquest

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1491

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Ferdinand and Isabella expel the Jews from Spain

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1492

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Columbus sails west to find Asia

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1492

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Huayna Capac comes to the Incan throne

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1493

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Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope

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1497

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John Cabot sets off for Newfoundland

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1497

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Ivan the Great of Russia dies

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1505

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Henry VIII becomes king of England

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1509

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Martin Luther nails the Ninety-Five Theses onto the Wittenberg church door

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1517

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Cortes conquers the Incas

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1519

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Suleiman the Lawgiver becomes sltan of the Ottoman Empire

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1520

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Magellan sails through the Straits of Magellan

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1520

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Huayna Capac dies

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1525

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Leo Africanus writes of his journey through Songhay

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1526

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Babur the Tiger invades India

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1526

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Babur the Tiger

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1530

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Ivan the Terrible becomes tsar of Russia

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1533

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Jacques Cartier begins his exploration of North America

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1534

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Hernando de Soto begins his exploration of North America

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1539

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Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres

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1543

21
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First meeting of the Council of Trent

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1545

22
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Edward VI becomes king of England

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1547

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Edward Vi dies

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1553

24
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Mary I becomes queen of England

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1553

25
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Akbar becomes emperor of India

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1556

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Philip II becomes king of Spain

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`1556

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Mary I of England dies

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1558

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Elizabeth I becomes queen of England

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1558

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Oda Nobunaga gains power in Japan

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1560

30
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William Shakespeare is born

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1564

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suleiman the Lawgiver dies

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1566

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Ivan the Terrible dies

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1584

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Walter Raleigh founds the first Virginia colony

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1585

34
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John White leaves the Roanoke colony for England

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1587

35
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Defeat of the Spanish Armada

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1588

36
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Elizabeth I dies

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1603

37
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First permanent English settlement in America

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1607

38
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The first French settlement in Canada is established in Quebec

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1608

39
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Galileo invents the telescope

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1609

40
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William Shakespeare dies

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1616

41
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The last Chinese emperor leaves the Forbidden City

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1624

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