Wikibooks: Brief History of Europe/Early modern period part 2

• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Subjects: New Zealand; Trinidad; Inca; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Brief_History_of_Europe/Early_modern_period_part_2

The early modern period was circa 1500–1750 AD or ending at the French Revolution (1789) or at 1800. This second chapter on the early modern period discusses the Age of Discovery and colonial empires Reformation and religious turmoil (including the Thirty Years War) religious tensions in England and Scotland and aspects of modernity . = Age of Discovery and colonial empires = Age of Discovery was from circa 1400 to 1800. Lands include the Americas (the New World) southern Africa Congo River West Indies India Maluku Islands (Spice Islands) Australasia New Zealand Antarctica and Hawaii. Largely coincided with the Age of Sail (1571–1862). = Spanish and Portuguese empires = Spanish Empire (1492–1975) began when Christopher Columbus landed in the New World in 1492. This was followed by La Conquista the Spanish colonization of the Americas by the conquistadores. Cortes conquered the Aztecs after the Spanish–Aztec War (1519–21). In 1532 Pizarro conquered the Inca empire in Peru. The Maya and many other peoples were also conquered. Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer that organised the Spanish expedition that achieved the first global circumnavigation 1519–1522 which was completed after his death by Juan Sebastián Elcano. The Spanish Empire would be mostly divided into viceroyalties Viceroyalty of the Indies (1492–1526) Viceroyalty of New Spain (1535–1821) Viceroyalty of Peru (1542–1824) Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717–1819) Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (1776–1814) The Viceroyalty of New Spain would include the Spanish East Indies (the Philippine Islands the Mariana Islands the Caroline Islands parts of Taiwan and parts of the Moluccas) and the Spanish West Indies (Cuba Hispaniola Puerto Rico Jamaica the Cayman Islands Trinidad and the Bay Islands). It also included a substantial portion of mainland Americas including Spanish Louisiana. The Portuguese Empire began in 1415. The Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama during his voyage to India (1497–1499) performed the first navigation ...