Meanwhile…

Ivan IV becomes the first tsar

1547-01-16

The Bossche Broek as a defensive landscape

16de eeuw

The Protestant Reformation

1517-10-31

Jesuit Missions Spread Catholicism to Asia and the Americas

mid-1500s to 1700s

Arrival of Portuguese traders and firearms

1543

Discovery of the silver mines of Potosí

1545

Diverse reef fauna colonizes coral ecosystems

from around 485 million years ago to the present

The Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution

ca. 1450 – 1700

Ottoman Kaftans and Silk Trade Flourish

around 1550 AD

West African Kente Cloth Weaving Emerges

around 1600 AD

The survival of the birds

vanaf ca. 66 miljoen jaar geleden