Events

• Transition from the period Muromachi about the period Azuchi-Momoyama to the Japan.

• 275 000 inhabitants in Paris.

• Dryness in the South-west of the North America during the thirty last years of the 16th century. It particularly reaches the California (1571 - 1597) and the Colorado (1573 - 1593) but is less marked in North (Oregon).
• the Peru account approximately 100  000 mongrels for 38  000 white. One prohibits the European weapons, the horses and the access to priesthood to them.
• 250  000 black slaves in the Spanish Americas. The Indian population is stabilized to 9 million for 180  000 European colonists approximately.
• Beginning of the importation in mass of Slave S Blacks with the Brazil: Sudanese of Western Africa then Bantous of equatorial Africa. They adapt better than the Indians to the sedentary work of agriculture. However, the average lifespan of the slaves in the plantations sugar does not exceed seven years. They live in small rudimentary huts, the senzalas , built behind the put large of the Master. Sometimes, they revolt, forming quilombos or republic of “maroon” negros in the interior (that of Palmares, for example, at the 17th century). From 3,5 to 3,6 million slaves would have been imported in Brazil between 1500 and 1850.

Significant characters

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

Simple: 1570s