Early Modern Period

1500 C.E.- 1900 C.E.

• Age of Discovery (or Exploration) (Europe, 15th century – 17th century)
• Elizabethan period (United Kingdom, 1558 – 1603)
• The Protestant Reformation (Europe, 16th century)
• Jacobean Era (United Kingdom, 1603-1625)
• The Age of Enlightenment (or Reason) (Europe,18th century)
• Tokugawa shogunate (Japan, 1603 – 1868)
• Mughal Empire (India, 1526 – 1857)
• Ottoman Empire (Islam, 1299–1923)
• Qing dynasty (China, 1644 – 1912)
• Spanish hegemony (Americas, 16th century – 1820s; Europe, 16th and 17th century,Philippines, 1525 – 1898)