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|Ferdinand Magellan

|Ferdinand Magellan

|1519-1522: led the first successful voyage to go around the world, going around the southern tip of South America.  Magellan himself was killed by Philippine natives prior to completing the last leg of the journey.

|1519-1522: led the first successful voyage to go around the world, going through the [[traits of Magellan]] near the southern tip of South America.  Magellan himself was killed by Philippine natives prior to completing the last leg of the journey.

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|Results of Magellan's voyage

|Results of Magellan's voyage

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|William of Orange

|William of Orange

|(1579) led the Netherlands in a revolt against their Spanish masters; this (along with the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British) weakened Spanish power

|(1579) led the Netherlands in a revolt against their Spanish masters; this (along with the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English) weakened Spanish power

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|[[England]]

|[[England]]

|an nation-state based in the British isles off the western coast of Europe; it greatly helped shape the modern world and established the largest non-contiguous empire in history in the late 1800s but is much weaker than the U.S. today

|A nation-state based in the British isles off the western coast of Europe; it established the largest non-contiguous empire in history in the late 1800s but is much weaker than the U.S. today

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|mercantilism

|mercantilism

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|Kaiser Wilhelm II  

|Kaiser Wilhelm II  

|German emperor  who started the world war I and later went into exile in the Netherlands after defeating.  

|leader of Germany who ended Germany’s alliance with Russia, which caused Russia to form an alliance with France in 1891.  

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|[[imperialism]]

|[[imperialism]]