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Nov 28, 1405
Zheng He took his first voyage
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Nov 28, 1419
Prince Henry founded the school of navigation
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Period: Nov 29, 1451 to
Triangular Trade System
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Nov 28, 1488
Bartolomeu Dias ventured far down the coast of Africa until he reaches the tip
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Oct 2, 1492
Clumbus makes his first voyage
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Nov 28, 1497
Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama began exploring the East African coast
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Nov 28, 1507
German map maker named new continent, "America," Amerigo Vespucci
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Nov 28, 1521
Spanish expedition lead by Ferdinand Magellan arrived in the Philipppines.
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Nov 28, 1542
encomienda system was abolished
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Jamestown was founded on the coast of Virginia in the New World
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Dutch established their trading headquarters in Batavia, Java
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Pilgrims founded second English colony, called Plymouth, Massachusettes
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Robert de la Salle explored the Mississippi River for France
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Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet explored the Great Lakes
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New France covered most of what is now the mid-west U.S. and Canada
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Britain seeks to trade with China
