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People from north Africa called Almoravids attacked Ghana and dispruted its trade routes.
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The Europeans launched the first of nine expeditions, known as the crusades, to regain control of their holy sites.
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Musa, amuslim, made a grand pilgrimage to the muslim holy city of Mecca
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Prince Henry set up a center of exploration on the southwestern tip of Portugal.
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Columus reached the Bahamas. He thought that he reached the East Indies.
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Portugal and Spain signed the "treaty of Tordesillas."
Pope Alexander VI drew a line of demarcation,
an imaginary line running down the middle of the Atlantic from the North Pole to the
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Bartholomeu Dias sailed around the cape of good hope. He hoped that the passage Africa might lead to a new route to India.
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Vasco da Gama reached the port of Calicut completing the long-awaited eastern sea route to Asia.
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Balboa formed an exploring party and hiked through the jungles hoping to find the "great waters".
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Juan Ponce de Leon made the first Spanish landind on the Mainland of North America.
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Ferdinand Magellan was hired to lead an expedition to find a sea route thrugh or around South America to Asia.
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France hired Giovanni da Varranzano to look for the northern sea route.
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Fransisco Pizarro captued the Inca Ruler and destroyed much of the Incan Army.
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Spaniards set off on foot on a great
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De Soto crossed the Mississippi River in
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The Spanish Govermant passed the new laws which forbade making Native Americans slaves.
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England sent John Cabot, to look for a nothern route to Asia. England used Cabot%u2019s voyage as the basis for its claims to North America.
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The French group sent Samuel de Champlain to establish a settlement in Quebec.
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The Dutch West India Company set up a trading colony.
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Peter Minuit paid the Manhates people do Dutch guildeers in goods for the island.
