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Catholics wanted to take the holy land from the Muslims. -
People's eyes were opened and they wanted to have new goods. More trade and manufacturing started. -
In 1254 Venice, Italy, Marco Polo was born to merchant parents. -
In 1293 the Polos ended their journey by sailing home to Venice. -
During a battle in Genoa where Marco Polo was captioning a ship, he was captured by the enemy. In prison, a Pisan writer wanted him to write a book about what it was like traveling to Asia for trade. Marco Polo called the book "The Description of the World or The Travels of Marco Polo." -
In 1415 the Portuguese captured the Fortress of Ceuta in Africa. They also found a lot of gold in Africa which they used in trade. The caravel was also invented. -
In 1419 the Madeira Islands were discovered by Portugal. This was funded by Prince Henry the Navigator. -
In 1427, the Portuguese discovered the Azores Islands. Like the Madeira Islands, this trip was also funded by Prince Henry the Navigator. -
Portugal had never had a successful voyage to Cape Blanco but that changed in 1434. -
In 1440 the German inventor Johann Gutenberg created the printing press. -
In 1456, the Cape Verde Islands were discovered. This was the last discovery before Prince Henry the Navigator's death. -
In 1469, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile married. This unified Spain. -
In 1485, Columbus asked the King of Portugal to fund a journey to the Spice Islands. The King said no. -
In march 1488, Bartolomeu Díaz and his crew sailed to the tip of Africa. He had planned to sail to India, but his crew wanted to sail back. -
On October 12, 1492, Columbus and his crew landed on the Island of Hispaniola, which is now the Dominican Republic. He thought that he had landed in India. -
In 1498 Da Gama sailed to India and accomplished King Joâo's II dream. This made Portugal very rich. -
Thomas Hobbes wrote The Leviathan in 1641
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John Locke wrote The Second Treatise on Government in 1690.
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In 1776 the U.S got independence from Britian -
The French citizens revolted aginst the monarchy -
The slaves in Haiti started a revolt -
In 1803 Hatiti became independent -
Napoleon Bonaparte, who was a French Emporer invaded Spain in 1804 -
Hidalgo told the people in his town to fight for their independence. -
The Admirable Campaign started in 1813 with Bolivar invading Venezuela. -
In 1817 Spain re-occupied Chile -
On February 12, 1817 Spain took Chile. -
In 1819, there was an economic crisis where many banks failed, this created a depression. -
In 1820 Moses Austin and a slave named Richmond traveled to East Texas. -
In 1821 Bolivar created Gran Colombia -
In 1821 Mexico was independent from Spain. -
Bolivar created Gran Colombia in 1821. It was turned into Venezuela, Colombia, Panamá and Ecuador. -
In 1821 San Martin was able to make Peru independent. -
In 1823, the government of Mexico passed a law called the Imperial Colonization Law. This law would allow him to let settlers come to Texas. -
In 1824, Austin founded San Felipe de Austin which was the capital of his colony. -
In 1824 the Republic of Bolivia was made with Bolivar as the dictator. -
Every early Texan immigrant came under this constitution, it said that Mexico would be a federalist government with a president. -
In 1825, there were 300 people in Austin's colony, they were nicknamed the old 300. -
The Edwards brothers created the Republic of Freedonia in 1826 to be independent from Mexico. -
More settlers moved to Austin's colony, which expanded the population. -
Mexico made it so that they could have more power over Texas. They ended immigration from the U.S., empressario grants, slaves more Mexicans moved there and a tax was created. -
The Texans wrote a message to keep the peace that was called the Turtle Bayou Resolutions. In it, they supported Santa Anna. -
Santa Anna became president of Mexico in 1833 -
The Texans defeated General Cos and the Mexicans in 1835. -
Erasmus "Deaf" Smith said that the Mexicans were coming with calvery and mules in November 1835. -
The Texas army attacked the Mexicans and the Mexicans ended up retreating. -
In 1835 the Texas Revolution started. -
The Texans when to Goliad to attack and they won with the battle lasting 30 minutes -
It made Texas an independent contrey. -
The 13-day battle of the alamo started on February, 24 1836 -
The Mexicans won the battle of the Alamo on March 6 1836
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There was a battle at Goliad that the Mexicans won and they executed all of the Texan solders -
The Texans attacked while the Mexicans were on siesta. They yelled things like remember the alamo and the goilad. They won