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Period: Jan 1, 1000 to
the exploration years
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Jan 1, 1015
leif ericson the first european to land in north amirica
Leif Ericson was a Norse explorer who is known as the first European to land in North America and Greenland almost 500 years before Christopher Columbus. He established a Norse settlement at Vinland, which has been known to be with the L'Anse aux Meadows Norse site on the northern tip of the island of Newfoundland in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. -
Sep 12, 1016
the vikings attack the monks
the vikings needed a lot of resorses that the monks had so they whent and attack them and took there stuff so that is why they say the vikings are very bad people but they are some what good people. -
Mar 21, 1020
son of lief erikson
the son of Erik Thorvaldsson, known as Erik the Red (Old Norse a Norse explorer from Western Norway, an outlaw and himself the son of an outlaw, Thorvald Asvaldsson. Leif's mother was Erik the Red founded two Norse colonies in Greenland, the Western Settlement and the Eastern Settlement, as he named them. In both Eiríks saga rauða and Landnáma, Leif's father is said to have met and married Leif's mother Thjodhild in Iceland; the site of Leif's birth -
Feb 2, 1027
the death of lief erikson
Leif Ericson was born in Iceland in the year 971, the exact date is not known. I have only found one reference to Leif's death which mentions 1021 as his death year -
Apr 17, 1032
the silk road
The Silk Road, a network of trade routes across the Asian continent, connected East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, as well as North, East and Northeast Africa and Europe. It began in central China & India and stopped somewhere near the Mediterranean Sea. Today India and Red China share a border, but the mountains created an effective Northern border for India that blocked trade. The main trade routes for India were by sea or through present day Afghanistan. For a consider -
Jan 8, 1254
the birth of marco polo
marco polo was born jan 8 1254 ,recorded in Il Milione, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. He learned about trading whilst his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, travelled through Asia and met Kublai Khan. In 1269, they returned to Venice to meet Marco for the first time. The three of them embarked on an epic journey to Asia, returning after 24 years to find Venice at war with Genoa; Marco was imprisoned. -
Apr 20, 1275
marco polo go`s to china
Upon his return to Italy, Marco Polo told of his findings of jade, porcelain, silk, ivory, and other riches of Asia. He described the festival of the Emperor's birthday in which everything from clothing to ornaments were laced in gold. He also explained how he saw people using black stones for fuel (later known as coal). Unfortunately, all his stories and details of the unimaginable were rejected, and Marco Polo became the "man of a million lies." After he retrieved his notes from China, Marco -
Feb 17, 1324
the death of marco polo
Marco Polo born 1254, died 1324. marco polo died on febuary 17
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May 21, 1397
prince henrey
Despite the creation of the caravel and the knowledge shared at his school for sailors, Prince Henry had a great deal of difficulty persuading his captains to sail beyond Cape Bojodor off the west coast of Africa. According to legend, beyond this point in an area known as the "Green Sea of Darkness," the sun was so close to the Earth that a person’s skin would burn black, the sea boiled, ships caught on fire, and monsters hid waiting to smash the ships and eat the sailors. It took fourteen voyag -
Oct 31, 1451
the birth of christopher columbus
Christopher Columbus (c. 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere. Those voyages, and his efforts to establish permanent settlements in the island of Hispaniola, initiated the process of Spanish coloniza -
Dec 21, 1480
the renassances live
In Italy, especially central and northern Italy, the Renaissance had started by 1350. It didn't extend to Northern Europe till perhaps 1480 or so.
Nowadays, many historians talk about 'the extended Renaissance period' meaning about 1400 to 1700.
Renaissance happened between the centuries 14 and 17 in Italy at the beginning and then Europe. It affected the lives of millions and changed the way people were thinking. -
May 21, 1492
christopher columbus travels all over the place
He thought he was traveling to the Indies, but he landed in the Bahamas.
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May 21, 1506
the death of christopher columbus
Columbus died on May 20, 1506 from a heart attack, caused by Reiter's Syndrome in Valladolid, Spain. was 50 -
cortez
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca (Spanish pronunciation 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers that began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
Born in Medellín, Spain, to a fam
