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Fernão Gomes rented the rights of African exploration for five years.
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Portugese navigator whose 1487-88 Atlantic voyage around the southern tip of Africa opened sea routes between Europe and Asia
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Columbus wanted to travel across the world and reached the West Indies in 1492.
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Divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal along a meridian
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On 8 July 1497 Vasco da Gama led a fleet of four ships with a crew of 170 men from Lisbon
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He was appointed to head an expedition to India in 1500, following Vasco da Gama's newly opened route around Africa
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Portugese invaded the capital.
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Hernández de Córdoba, to explore the Yucatán peninsula
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Spanish ship carried the first enslaved Africans from Arica to America.
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Ferdinand set sail to circumnavigate the world
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Hernan Cortes defeated the Aztecs
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Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigates the world
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Francisco Pizarro led the Spanish to defeat the Incans
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Treaty between Charles V and the Lutheran Princes. Churches were splitting in Europe.
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Arrived in India in 1595.
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England ruled United States until the Revolutionary War.
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Samuel de Champlane founded Quebec
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Henry Hudson who, in an attempt to find the so-called northwest passage to the Indies, discovered and claimed for the VOC parts of the present-day United States and Canada.
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English east india trading company ownded the ship
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Canada was under the rule of Europeans until 1867.
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Set sail following the Northwest passage.
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English seize the colony of New Netherland from the Dutch
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Slavery was abolished in 1865 in the United States.