1400–1499 (A.D.) World History. Casa di San Giorgio, one of the first public banks, founded in Genoa. Henry V defeats French at Agincourt. Jan Hus, Bohemian preacher and follower of Wycliffe, burned at stake in Constance as heretic. Portugal's Prince Henry the Navigator sponsors exploration of Africa's coast. Brunelleschi begins work on the Duomo in Florence. Joan of Arc leads French against English, captured by Burgundians (1430) and turned over to the English, burned at the stake as a witch after ecclesiastical trial (1431). Incas rule in Peru. Florence becomes center of Renaissance arts and learning under the Medicis. Turks conquer Constantinople, end of the Byzantine empire, beginning of the Ottoman empire. The Wars of the Roses, civil wars between rival noble factions, begin in England (to 1485). Ivan the Great rules Russia until 1505 as first czar; ends payment of tribute to Mongols.
Moors conquered in Spain by troops of Ferdinand and Isabella. Vasco da Gama sails around Africa and discovers sea route to India (1498). World History For Us All: Big Era 7. Home > The Big Eras > The period from 1750 to 1914 was a pivotal moment in human history. Historians have named it the era of the modern revolution. Over the course of Big Era Seven change in human society became autocatalytic. Scientists use this term to describe a chemical process, but it is also a useful historical concept. A catalyst is a person or thing that precipitates a change. Autocatalysis occurs when one kind of change precipitates by itself the need for other kinds of changes. Since about 1750, a steadily pyramiding sequence of changes has transformed human life. The modern revolution involved numerous interacting developments. First, a revolutionary transformation occurred in human use of energy. Second, unprecedented global population growth accompanied the fossil fuel revolution.
Third, an industrial transformation got under way. Fourth, a revolution took place in communications and transport. Fifth, the modern revolution was partly a democratic revolution. This Footnotes: World History For Us All: Big Era 6. Home > The Big Eras > At the level of the human species as a whole, the most striking aspect of the period from 1400 to 1800 was the enormous extension of networks of communication and exchange that linked individuals and societies more and more tightly. Every region of the world became intricately connected to every other region, a development that we call the Great Global Convergence. Also in this era the worlds population began to move dramatically upward, breaking through the ceilings on growth that had previously governed human affairs. Big Era Six saw striking changes in human history. Five key transformations mark the era: First, human societies and the networks that connected them became much more complex.
The most dramatic example of this is that for the first time in history peoples of Afroeurasia began to interact on a large scale with peoples of the Americas (from the early sixteenth century) and <a href="/shared/glossary.htm" target="_blank">(Glossary-without Javascript)</a> US History Teachers Blog. American History.