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Portugal expands into the Muslim North America.
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Dias rounded the southern tip of Africa.
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Columbus reached the Carribean by sailing West across the Atlantic ocean.
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Ferdinand and Isabella appealed to the Spanish-born Pope Alexander VI to support their claims in the new world. The Pope set the line of Demarcation dividing the non-European world into two zones.
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Columbus returned to Spain with plants and animals he found in the America's.
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reaches India by rounding Africa. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and established ports on the India ocean.
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A minor Portuguese nobleman name ferdinand Magellan set out from Spain with five ships.
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Cortes completes the conquest of the Aztecs.
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One of Magellan's ships and eighteen of his men reached Spain. They had successfully circumnavigated the globe.
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The dutch establish the Dutch East India company.
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The British Colonists found Jamestown, Virginia.
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Another group of settlers landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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The Dutch take Malacca from the Portuguese
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The Dutch immigrants arrived at the southern tip of the continent and built Cape town.
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The treaty of Paris was signed, ending the French and Indian war.