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Europeans as Explorers, Conquerors & Traders History 104 / January 9, 2013. The expansion of the Ottoman Turkish empire. The fall of Constantinople, 1453 (contemporary & modern renderings). From Constantinople to Istanbul The conversion of the Hagia Sophia (I).
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Europeans as Explorers, Conquerors & TradersHistory 104 / January 9, 2013
The fall of Constantinople, 1453(contemporary & modern renderings)
From Constantinople to IstanbulThe conversion of the Hagia Sophia (I)
From Constantinople to IstanbulThe conversion of the Hagia Sophia (II)
Bartholomeu Dias (1450-1500)Here: Dias Cross on the coast of Namibia, 1487
The Surrender of Granada in 1492(painted by Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz, 1882)
Hernán Cortés(1485-1547)Wrests Mexico from the Aztecs, 1519-21
Francisco Pizarroca. 1475-1541seizes the Inca capital, Cuzco, in 1533
“The new islands behind Spain to the East, near the country of India” (1544)
Spain hauls back 300 tons of silver per year from Peru & Mexico