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9 de ago. de 2022 · Updated August 9, 2022 | Infoplease Staff. 1500. On April 22nd, Brazil was conquered by the Portuguese Crown when Pedro Álvares Cabral took possession of it in the name of King Manuel I. 1501. First black slaves in America brought to Spanish colony of Santo Domingo. c. 1503. Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa.
- Asia
- Europe at 1500
- The Empires of Africa, ~1500
- The Americas
Imperial China
In 1356, an ambitious 28-year-old General Zhu Yuanzhang conquered the southern Chinese capital of Nanjing, making it his base for the next 12 years. Then he turned his troops northward and removed the Mongol-Yuan dynasty from their capital of Dadu (now the “northern capital” of Beijing). The Mongols retreated to Mongolia, and Zhu claimed the Mandate of Heaven and declared himself the first emperor of the Ming dynasty and ruled for 30 years. He tried to erase Mongol influence and return the em...
Southeast Asia
For more than two millennia, human societies in Southeast Asia have blended influences from East Asia (especially China) and South Asia (especially India) with indigenous cultural creations. From the 2nd century CE through the 16th century, a mixture of Hinduism and Buddhism from South Asia, often called “Hindu-Buddhism,” characterized Southeast Asian civilizations, such as those of Champa (Vietnam), the Empire of Angkor (Cambodia), Majapahit (Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore), Ayutthaya (T...
Japan
Shogun was the military dictator of Japan from 1185 to 1868 (with exceptions). In most of this period, the shoguns were the de facto rulers of the empire, although nominally, they were appointed by the emperor as a ceremonial formality. The shogun held almost absolute power over territories through military means. A shogun’s office or administration is the shogunate, known in Japanese as the bakufu. The shogun’s officials were collectively the bakufu and carried out the actual duties of admin...
Europe’s Dark Ages ended in the 15th century, after the disaster of the Black Death. Feudal lords squeezed their peasants for crops and labor, and states raised taxes. Several million died during the famine, and then two-thirds of Europe’s population disappeared between the plague’s arrival in 1347 and 1353. This depopulation threatened the power o...
Along with the Americas, Africa largely remained outside the global interactions. The long trip across the Sahara Desert or around the Atlantic Ocean and the localized cultures within the large continent tended to encourage African isolation. Still, a number of empires appeared in Africa.
Mayans
The people living in the Americas had been separated from Eurasia for nearly 12,000 years, since the end of the Ice Age. During this period, Native Americans experienced their own agricultural revolution around the same time as Africans and Eurasians, but instead of domesticating cattle, horses, sheep, goats, pigs, and chickens (which were not native to the Americas), they developed certain plants, creating three of the world’s current top five staple crops—corn, potatoes, and cassava—as well...
Aztec and Inca origins
Building on the Olmec stone culture, the Nahua people and possibly others built the structures of Teotihuacán between 100 BCE and 750 CE. The Aztecs claimed an ancestry to the inhabitants of Teotihuacán and transformed the cities of Tenochtitlán and Texcoco, built in the 1320s in the Valley of Mexico. Each city had more than 200,000 inhabitants when they were first encountered by the Spanish, making them as large as Paris and Milan, Europe’s most populous cities at the time. Tenochtitlán was...
21 de dic. de 2023 · World History Since 1500: An Open and Free Textbook is designed to cover world history from 1500 to the present in 15 chapters. The OER-supported textbook can be downloaded as a pdf or viewed online.
Welcome to OpenHistoricalMap! OpenHistoricalMap is an interactive map of the world throughout history, created by people like you and dedicated to the public domain. OpenHistoricalMap collaboratively stores and displays map data throughout the history of the world.
18 de sept. de 2022 · World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees in History, this textbook offers up-to-date original scholarship.
8 de nov. de 2023 · The Scientific Revolution (1500-1700), which occurred first in Europe before spreading worldwide, witnessed a new approach to knowledge gathering – the scientific method – which utilised new technologies like the telescope to observe, measure, and test things never seen before.
Major developments in world history from 1500 to 1000 BCE. A map showing some of the most notable developments in human history between 1500 and 1000 BCE, including the composition of the Rigveda and the start of the Iron Age. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./Kenny Chmielewski.
