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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Age of Exploration
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Jan 1, 1488
Bart Dias sailed around Cape of Good Hope
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Feb 5, 1492
Christopher Columbus sailed across the ocean blue in 1492
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Period: Jan 1, 1493 to Jan 1, 1504
Columbus makes three more voyages to the "Indies"
He spent the rest of his life believing that he had landed in India. -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Spain failed to produce enough food to feed it's people
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Feb 5, 1506
Vasco da Gama sailed eastward across the Indian Ocean
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Jan 1, 1513
Vasco Nunez de Balboa of Spain made an overland crossing of the Isthmus of Panama.
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Jan 1, 1513
Ponce de Leon sailed outward from the Carribean to the North American mainland.
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Jan 1, 1530
Francisco Pizarro led 180 men and 37 horses on an expedition.
They traveled from the Isthumus of Panama to the capital of the Inca Empire. -
Jan 1, 1543
Andreas Vesalius publishes "On the Fabric of the Human Body"
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Feb 11, 1543
Copernicus published his heliocentric theory.
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Robert Boyle
He proves that temperature and pressure affect the space that a gas occupies. -
Period: to
European Slave Ships carried thousands of slaves each year.
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Joeseph Priestly discover the element Oxygen
