Around 1500s , several most historically remarkable events happend on the other side of the world: In 1453, Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, was captured by the Muslim army of Ottoman Empire ; In 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered the viable sailing route to the Americas, a continent which was not then known to the Old World. In 1499, Vasco da Gama completed his initial voyage to India, which was the first to link Europe and Asia by an ocean route, connecting the Atlantic and the Indian oceans and therefore, the West and the Orient. In 1522, Ferdinand Magellan's fleet completed the first circumnavigation of the globe. Those events ALL happened in the _______Dynasty of China.