Early Modern Era (1450-1750) WORLD MAP & TIMELINE TEST STUDY GUIDE (Don’t forget to title your map & include a key for empires using colors of your choice.) Remember, completed Practice Map counts for 20 points of test score & is due before the test) MAP/TIMELINE TEST: 1/23 [A] & 1/24 [B] HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF PERIOD 4 GEOGRAPHY: THE EARLY MODERN WORLD, 1450 - 1750 • The oceans & seas were at the center of the Early Modern world. • When the Europeans found land expansion limited, they took to the open water becoming maritime empires. • The Atlantic Ocean and its neighboring seas and coasts joined the world system for the first time. • On the continents, land-based empires (Gunpowder Empires) utilizing military technologies and favoring trade established powerful empires. • Consequently straits and islands became important as conduits for movement between empires and civilizations. • Along these routes, great trading cities arose. Primate cities also established great importance as centers for government. EARLY MODERN ERA (1450-1750) [AP Units 3-4] TIMELINE QUIZ “NEED TO KNOW” EVENTS (Video Link) Remember, you don’t need to know specific dates (unless bolded/underlined); HOWEVER, you need to be able to place each event in its historical context (what came before/after). • 1453 – Ottomans conquer Constantinople (End • 1571 – Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of of Byzantine Christian Empire & beginning of Ottomans resulting in European control of the Ottoman Muslim Empire, which will last until Mediterranean) 1918) • 1588 – Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the • 1455 – Johann Gutenberg invents printing with British movable type at Mainz, Germany • 1600 – Beginning of the Tokugawa Shogunate • 1492 – Columbus becomes first European to • 1607 – Jamestown, Virginia established first encounter Caribbean permanent English colony on American • 1494 – Treaty of Tordesillas (Spanish get the mainland Americas; Portugal gets Brazil, Africa & Asia) • 1618 – 30 Years War begins (Religious wars • 1498 – Indian Ocean trade routes end with between Catholics & Protestants) Portuguese control of Swahili trading states • 1644 – Qing (Manchu) Dynasty established such as Kilwa (overthrow the Ming) • 1503 – Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa • 1648 – Taj Mahal is completed (Mughal Empire) (Renaissance) • 1689 – Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights • 1517 – Martin Luther’s 95 Theses (Protestant • 1703 – Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg Reformation) • 1521 – Cortez conquers the Aztecs • 1532 – Pizarro marches to Peru, kills the Incan chieftain, Atahualpa PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY • Bab el Mandeb • English Channel • Bight of Benin • Mozambique Channel • Cape Horn • Philippine Islands • Cape of Good Hope • Strait of Hormuz • Cuba • Lima CITIES • Lisbon • Acapulco • London • Amsterdam • Macao • Beijing • Malacca • Cadiz • Manila • Calicut • Mexico City • Canton (Guangzhou) • Mombasa • Delhi • Moscow • Goa • Paris • Isfahan • St. Petersburg • Istanbul • Venice • Kyoto • Vienna APWH Period 4 CITIES Map Game: https://www.purposegames.com/game/mrs-ozs-period-4-apwh-map-test-cities LAND & MARITIME EMPIRES • Aztec • Ottomans • British • Portuguese • Dutch • Russian • French • Safavids • Inca • Songhai • Manchus (Qing) • Spanish • Mughals • Tokugawa Shogunate APWH Period 4 Land & Maritime Empires Map Game: https://www.purposegames.com/game/mrs-ozs-period-4-apwh-map-land- maritime-empi Early Modern Era: 1450-1750.