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Prince Henry the Navigator discovered and claimed the Madira and Azores island to the west and southwest of Portugul.
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Bartholomeu Dias rounded the tip of Africa. The tip of Africa became the Cape of Good Hope.
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Sailed the Ocean to try to reach the East Indies, by sailing west across the Atlantic.
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Following in Dias' footsteps, he lead his ships around the Cape of Good Hope and later reached the Great Spice Port of Calicut on the west coast of India.
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Italian navigator and explorer whose discovery of parts of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England
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Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts
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French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France
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As many as four million Africans were sent to Brazil that blended European, Native American, and African element
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Other European explorers continued to sail the coasts of the Americas, hunting for gold and other treasure, as well as a northwest passage to Asia.
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he arrived in the Spanish colony of Hispaniola where he later joined the expedition to settle Panama
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Ruler of Kongo in Central Africa.
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The Portuguese under his command burst into the Indian Ocean
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the Portuguese seized the island of Goa off the coast of India making it their major military and commercial base.
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Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar
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King of France
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Made an exciting landmark victory for the European settlers
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Magellan had claimed the archipelago for Spain
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The Spanish began bringing Africans to the Americas as slave laborers by the 1530s. They imported millions of Africans as slaves
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Portugal began to issue grants of land to portuguese nobles who agreed to develop the land and share profits with the crown.
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spain passed the new laws of the indies which forbade enslavement and abuse of Native Americans but spain was to far away to enforce them.
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the portuguese reached Japan, followed by the Spanish, Dutch and English
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To meet the churches need for educated priests the colonies built universities. The University of Mexico was established as early as 1551.
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Jesuit priest who made a particularly strong impression on the Chinese.
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a group of wealthy Dutch merchants formed the Dutch East India Company.
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Woman wishing on education might enter a convent
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the Tokugawa's had turned against European traders Japan barred all european merchants and forbade Japanese to travel abroad
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the dutch captured Malacca from the Portuguese and opened trade with China
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victorious Manchu armies seized Beijing and made it their capital.
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Dutch Farmers who settled around Cape Town.
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Arrived in China at the head of a British diplomatic mission.
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Spain claimed a vast empire stretching from California to South America