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Under the commands of Prince Henry the Navigator, Portuguese fleets traveled southward along the western coast of Africa where they discovered gold.
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King John II appointed Bartholomeu Dias to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa to make contact with a Christian ruler.
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Believing that he had reached Asia, he reached all the major Caribbean islands and Honduras in Central America. He named these the Indies.
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Because Spain and Portugal were afraid others might get to the newly discovered territories first, they created this treaty. It called for a line of demarcation extending from north to south throught the Atlantic Ocean and the easternmost part of the South American continent.
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He traveled around the cape and across the Indian Ocean to the coast of India. He arrived at the port of Calicut where he took on a cargo of spices. Later returning to Portugal, he made a profit of several thousand percent.
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Pedro was sent on an expedition to India. He sighted Brazil claiming it was Portugal. He was the first European to see Brazil.
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Albuquerque sailed into Melaka. This would destroy Arab control of the spice trade and provide the Portuguese with a way station on the route to the Spice Islands.
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A Spanish ship brought the first enslaved Africans from Africa to the Americas. Then they became part of the Triangular trade. Slavery continued in the U.S. until the Civil War in the 1860's.
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He started in 1519 along the coast of South America in order to find a sea passage through America. He passed through a waterway into the Pacific Ocean. He reached the Phillipines but he was killed by the native tribes there.
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Spanish had a great advantage fighting the Aztec because of their advanced weapons. They took Montezuma hostage and started to ransack the city. Many Aztec died from the European diseases the Spanish brought over.
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Called, "New Spain", it was established after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
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Francisco Pizarro landed on the Pacific coast of South America with a total of 180 men with weapons the Inca had never seen. Just like the Aztec, the Inca died from European diseases to which they had no immunity to.
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The end to religious warfare created in Germany. This agreement formally accepted the division of Christianity in Germany. This meant the German states were now able to choose between Catholicism and Lutheranism.
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This was the Dutch East India Company. It was created when the States-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia.
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England ruled Canada from the year 1605 until British rule in 1763.
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Great Britain ruled over the colonies starting in 1607 until 1776 when they declared their independence.
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Hudson found a body of water that he thought was the Pacific Ocean. It turned out to be the Hudson Bay.
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This was when Henry Hudson was hired by the Dutch East India Company and found the Hudson River.
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This was the voyage of Henry Hudson who tried to find a northeast passage to China above Norway.
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English took over New Netherland in the year 1664.
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The French held Canada and Louisiana until the Treaty of Paris was signed. This awarded French holdings to Great Britain and Spain.