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Bi Sheng experimented with movable individual printing types
The global impact was minimum. 2 reasons:
o Complexity of the Chinese language (many more characters than European languages)
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Ceuta falls in the hands of the portuguese, led by king John I, in an attempt to control the Gibraltar strait
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Ottoman empire conquers Constantinopla
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The portuguese founded a trading network in what it is today Ghana
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Until Sept 4th, 1479. Won by Isabella I of Castille
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The portuguese Bartolomeu Dias reached the Indian ocean and began exploring it
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The arrival in America of an expedition led by Christopher Columbus by order of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon. Columbus had departed from the Port of Palos two months and nine days earlier and, after crossing the Atlantic Ocean, reached an island on the American continent, Guanahani, believing that he had arrived in India - Columbus exchange -
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Spaniards retake control of Granada over the Muslims
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Cultivating financially lucrative crops in the Americas + devastation of native populations = increase in the demand for labour. This lead to the abduction and forced movement of 12 Million Africans during the XVI and XIX centuries. - Columbus exchange -
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He did it even though the governor of Cuba, Diego Velazquez, told him not to. Tenochtitlan was the capital of the Aztec Empire
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From this moment on, both oceans Pacific and Atlantic could be crossed
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In the hands of the Spanish Empire
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In that moment, the Empire was in the middle of a Succession War over the throne, that was won by Atahualpa
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it was in Cajamarca. Pizarro held Atahualpa hostage and executed him the year after. The Inca Empire suffered a big loss and never recovered from it, it became really poor and over the next years it anexxed to the Spanish Empire
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The Spanish Crown pronounced them after the multiple accusations by Fray Bartolome de las Casas. The number of granted encomiendas was limited and the ones belonging to the Church were supressed. the "indians" couldnt perform personal labours to the encomendero anymore, and their job was finished once their "boss" died
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By Andres de Urdaneta and Miguel Lopez de Legazpi
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Manila was founded by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi and Andres de Urdaneta. It was the link between Asia and America's trade in silver and silk. China was the dominant buyer and Mexico and Peru, the main producers - Born with a "Silver spoon -
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At the end of the XVI century and the beginning of the XVII, Japan started to export silver to China and ended up being a big competition to the main producers in Latin America, Mexico and Peru - Born with a "Silver Spoon" -
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