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Europeans as Explorers, Conquerors & TradersHistory 104 / January 9, 2013
The expansion of the Ottoman Turkish empire
The fall of Constantinople, 1453(contemporary & modern renderings)
From Constantinople to IstanbulThe conversion of the Hagia Sophia (I)
From Constantinople to IstanbulThe conversion of the Hagia Sophia (II)
Suleiman the magnificentSultan of Turkey, 1520-1566
The Turkish siege of Vienna, 1529
Prince Henry“the Navigator”Portuguese Noble,
1394-1460
Bartholomeu Dias (1450-1500) Here: Dias Cross on the coast of Namibia, 1487
Dias rounds theCape of Good Hope, 1488
The last leg:Vasco de Gama’svoyage to India,
1497-1499
Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile (married 1479)
The Surrender of Granada in 1492(painted by Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz, 1882)
The expulsion of theSpanish (Sephardic)
Jews, 1492
Ottoman Turkey receives Jewish refugees from Spain
Spanish victories over centralized empires
Hernán Cortés(1485-1547)
Wrests Mexico from the Aztecs,
1519-21
Francisco Pizarroca. 1475-1541
seizes the Inca capital, Cuzco, in 1533
The biological encounter across the Atlantic
Martin Waldseemüller’s world map, ca. 1507
“The new islands behind Spain to the East, near the country of India” (1544)
Spain hauls back 300 tons of silver per year from Peru & Mexico