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Period: Jan 1, 1200 to Dec 31, 1399
True Compass created
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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
European Monarchs supported expansion and colonization
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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Age of Exploration
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Period: Jan 1, 1451 to
Triangle Trade Acoss Atlantic
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Period: Jan 1, 1480 to
Comercial Revolution
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Jan 1, 1488
Bartolomeu Dias Sailed around Cape of Good Hope
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Aug 1, 1492
Christopher Columbus left Spain
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Oct 12, 1492
Columbus lands at San Salvador
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Period: Jan 1, 1497 to Dec 31, 1504
Amerigo Vespucci
Crossed Atlantic several times for Spain and Portugal
Knew land was not Asia. Called it the "new world"
America would be named after -
Jan 1, 1498
Vasco de Gama sailed Indian Ocean to India
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Jan 1, 1510
Portuguese conquered southwest coast of India
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Jan 1, 1513
Ponce de Leon sailed from Caribbean to Florida
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Jan 29, 1513
Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama
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Jan 1, 1516
Charles V. took the Spanish throne
He was a Habsburg (German Family)
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Jan 1, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan left Spain for South America
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Jan 30, 1519
Hernan Cortes invaded Mexico
11 Ships and 600 men.
Destroyed Aztec city Tenochtitlan
Built Mexico City over ruins -
Jan 1, 1521
Magellan died in Philippine Islands
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Jan 30, 1522
Magellans crew reached Spain
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Jan 1, 1530
Francisco Pizarro led expedition from Panama
180 men and 37 horses to Peru -
Jan 1, 1533
Francisco Pizarro claimed Ecuador for Spain
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Period: Jan 1, 1556 to
King Philip II rule
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Jan 30, 1556
Charles V. divides up Empire
Gives Spain to son Philip II (Spanish Habsburgs) -
Jan 1, 1568
William of Orange led revolt against Philip
Netherlands break from Spain.
Used Guerrilla Warfare -
Jan 1, 1579
Williams leadership allows independence
Northern Provinces break from Spain -
Jan 1, 1580
Spain Annexed Portugal
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William of Orange killled
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Dutch East India Company founded
total control of trading between the Netherlands and East Indies -
First Dutch overseas colony on island of Java
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Dutch purchase Manhattan from Native Americans
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Portugal gains independence
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Period: to
Height of the Slave Trade
