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Period: 1095 to 1492
Crusades
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Period: 1271 to 1295
Marco Polo travels
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Period: 1300 to
Italian Renaissance
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Period: 1347 to 1388
Black Death
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1400
Caravel invented
1400s -
1440
Printing press invented
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1492
Columbus sails to New World
Spain begin colonization -
1497
Portugal starts colonizing Americas
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1498
Vasco de Gama reaches India
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1517
Protestant Reformation begins
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Period: 1519 to 1521
Magellan sails
Portuguese explorer -
1526
Start of slave trade
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1534
France begins colonize Americas
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1543
Copernicus share heliocentricism
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Period: 1550 to
Scientific Revolution
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Fluyt invented
Dutch -
British East India Company founded
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Dutch East India Company founded
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Britain begins American colonization
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Period: to
Louis XIV rules
Absolute monarchy in France -
Glorious Revolution in England
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Period: to
7 Years' War
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Period: to
American Revolution
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Period: to
French Revolution
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Vindication of Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft -
Period: to
Napoleon in France
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Congress of Vienna