The document summarizes events in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas in the year 1492. In Europe, Ferdinand and Isabella united Spain through marriage and conquered the last Muslim outpost of Granada. In Asia, the Chinese emperor banned merchants from traveling abroad while Japan was explored by Marco Polo. The Aztec and Maya empires dominated Mesoamerica but lacked naval power. European exploration was spurred by the need for Asian goods like spices normally under Muslim control.

1. Pablo R Ortega

2. Europe is a collection of City
states
Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella
Of Castile married and unite
Spain
Grenada last Muslim out post in
Europe conquered by the Spanish
The wealth used to send
Columbus on voyage to the
western hemisphere

3.  Ottoman Sultan Bayezid ruled
ottoman empire
 Conquers Constantinople in
1453
 Major military activity is
attacks in Hungary by sultan
Bayezid
 Granada is conquered
 Jews are explled from Spain in
1492

4.  Most of India is Muslim
 Exception of the Hindu
Kingdom of Vijayanagar
 Malacca is ruled by Sultan
Mahmud the seventh and
last of the native rulers


5.  In 1492 Emperor Xiaozong
ruled china
 Zheng he the three jeweled
eunuch sets out on voyages
to the west
 Chinese merchants are
forbidden from traveling
abroad
 Japan at this time is
explored by Marco Polo
exciting the imagination of
Christopher Columbus

6.  Aztec confederation of
Triple Aliance
 The Putuma were unfazed
by foreigners due to
extensive trade along the
coast
 Little to no naval
expansion by Maya or
Aztec

7.  Europe was a
Wheat,Barley,Oats and
Rye
 producing Country
 Rice and other spices
were scarce or
under Muslim merchant
possession
 The exploration latter
brought other goods to
Europe

8.  Empire building and
Development of
Governments
 City States Dominate
Europe landscape
 While in Americas and
other places
Centralized
Governments Rose
and Fell
 Ells were hunter
gather groups
roamed in-between

9.  Commerce and War made
Europe Grow
 Contact with the East And west
spurred exploration
 Columbus's Voyage needed
because of Europe's need for
Asian Goods