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Romulus Augustus is replaced by a Germanic Tribal Leader named Odoacer. The Dark Ages have begun.
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Pope Urban II calls on European Christian Knights for the First Crusade.
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Richard the Lionheart attempts to retake Jerusalem from Saladin. After a fever sets in and his army depleted, Richard calls for a truce before returning to Europe.
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The age of Exploration also called the Age of Discovery was a period when European explorers sailed the globe to find new trade routes and lands. The majority of these explorations were made to "The New World" by Portugese, Spanish, and later French, British, and Dutch explorers.
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Marco Polo travels to Asia. He roams the contient for 24 years collecting information. His stories are later published after his return to Italy. His book would be an inspiration to later explorer Christopher Columbus.
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Bubonic Plague spreads across Europe like a storm. The plague bacteria was trasmitted by rats on board trade ships from Asia. The rats carried infected fleas which would spread to humans once arriving at European ports. Not knowing what the cause of illness was, infected people continued to travel across Europe spreading the disease.
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The Renaissance was a "Rebirth" of cultural, scholarly and socio-political thought which focused on the teachings and discoveries from classical antiquity. Florence, Italy was the center of the Renaissance.
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Chrysoloras was a Greek scholar from Constantinople. He comes to Italy to teach Greek grammar. He will later teach at the Universities in Bologna, Italy, and Rome. With him comes the works of Homer and Plato's The Republic which he translates into Latin.
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Spanish explorers set up key ports and trading routes in the New World. These explorers would create lasting impacts on this area of the globe through cultural and future European influences.
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Columbus departed from Palos de la Frontera, Spain in order to find a shorter route to Asia.
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Columbus lands in the Bahamas, thinking he has landed in Japan. He names the island San Salvador.
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Scientist, Artist and Inventor Leonardo de Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 outside of Florence, Italy. Known through out the world as one of the greatest minds ever. His painting of The Last Supper measures 15 x 29 feet. He truly was a "Renaissance Man".
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Cortés lands on Hispaniola (Presently the island of Haiti & Dominican Republic) at the city of Santo Domingo.
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Michelangelo was commissioned to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in 1508. After his assistants failed to satisfy their his expectations, they were fired and their work erased. He then took upon himself the task of painting the ceiling himself.
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Cortés will cut through Mexico and defeat the Aztec Empire. This will open the door to Spainsh culture in Central America.
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Ferdinand Magellan determined to finish what Columbus had started, discovers a western route from Europe to Asia. He lands in the Philippines. This is why some people in the Philippines still speak Spanish.
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Pizarro pushs through Central & South America defeating the Inca Empire in Peru. The Capital of Lima was founded two years later in 1535.
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Hernando de Soto explores the Southeastern part of the United States. His travels would take him through Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Texas.
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Don Tristan de Luna founded the city of Pensacola in 1559, making it the oldest European settlement in the United States. However, the city was destroyed in a storm and was abandoned. Afterwards, St. Augustine was founded and has remained settled ever since. Pensacola was of course rebuilt, but locals from both cities like to argue over which city is Americas oldest.
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Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles was ordered to colonize Florida to protect Spainsh treasure ships returning to Spain from the New World. St. Augustine was founded and protected from enemy colonies to the north by contructing Castillo de San Marcos (pictured). The fort was attacked several times, but has never been captured.
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The Pilgrims, were persecuted for their religious beliefs in England. They fled to The Netherlands to try their luck there. Soon it was clear they would have to take their religion somewhere else. The Pilgrims were trying to reach Virginia since the English had already founded Jamestown. They were blown off course and landed near Cape Cod south of (soon to be) Boston Harbor.
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This colony was originally settled by the Dutch which named their colony New Netherlands, but was renamed New Jersey after the British took over.
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Originally settled by the Dutch, the settlement on an island at the mouth of the Hudson River was named New Amsterdam. After the British forced the Dutch out, the colony was renamed, New York.
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Escaping religious persecution in England, the king grants the Puritans a charter to establish a colony in America. King Charles was not a fan of the Puritans and used their charter as a way to get rid of them.
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Charles II gave William Penn a land tract of land which was named Pennsylvania. Penn, a Quaker, soon had a large group of Quakers pour into the area.
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Between 140-200 people were accused of witchcraft after a string of illnesses affect some girls of Salem Village. Within a year of trials, 20 people are dead by being hung, cruched by stones, or died in prison. Evidence was practically zero and only two women in the village were actually practicing what might be considered dark arts.
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James Oglethorpe gets a charter from King George II for the colony of Georgia. The colony is meant to serve as a second chance for debtors. Allowing them to work off their debt and make a new life in America. The colony also served as a seperation between the Spanish in Florida and the port city of Charles Town, South Carolina.
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