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1095
Pope Urban II calls for the Crusades
Pope Urban the II tries to claim back the holy land. This ended up causing a holy war to start. After the holy war, all the merchants began trading and made lots of money. This caused Europe to switch to a trading economy. -
1254
Marco Polo's Birth
Marco Polo was born into a merchant family in Venice. -
1293
The Polo's Journey Home
The polo's had just finished traveling through Asia. They were ready to head back with lots of foreign goods. They boarded a boat and made a two-year journey back home. -
1298
Captain Marco Polo
Marco Polo was in charge of a galley ship during a battle against Venice's rival city, Genoa. -
1300
the Renaissance
This was the start of ground-breaking inventions -
1440
The invention of the printing press
Johann Gutenburg invented the revolutionary printing press. His invention used a Chinese technique that macro polo brought back to europe. -
1511
The denouncement of of the mistreatment of new world indians
On a new day Indians were about to start to not have to be enslaved. -
1542
Destruction of the indies
The native Americans were sent to work as slaves in the field and in the mines -
The scientific revolution
This was when lots of amazing discoveries were made.