World (1400s) Flashcards
In 1497, this man sailed around Africa and with the help of a pilot crossed the Indian Ocean and reached India.
Vasco de Gama
On October 19, 1469, what two teenagers (and second cousins) were wed at a nuptial mass in front of an audience of grandees?
Grandees are Spanish or Portuguese nobles, and many were present at the politically ground-breaking 1469 wedding between Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile.
The first Spanish colony in the New World, La Navidad, was built from the wreckage of what ship?
La Navidad was founded in Hispaniola on Christmas Day 1492. Which of Columbus’s three ships had foundered the night before and provided the building material for the new fort? The Santa Maria, appropriately enough.
Ottoman ruler Mehmed II’s conquest of Constantinople in 1453 marked the end of what other empire?
Byzantine Empire / Eastern Roman Empire
The Battle of Castillon & the capture of Bordeaux in 1453 effectively ended this war. hide
Hundred Years’ War
