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The Portuguese began systematically exploring the Atlantic coast of Africa
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In 1419, Henry founded a navigation school on the southwestern coast of Portugal. Mapmakers, instrument makers, shipbuilders, scientists, and sea captains gathered there to perfect their trade.
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(Actual date unknown) Bartolomeu Dias reaches the southernmost tip of africa, and his the first one to do so.
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Believing that he found the Indies near Japan or China, Christopher Columbus stumbles upon the new land of America
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Treaty of Tordesillas was signed
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The Portuguese king had entered agreements with the rulers of several West African states that would allow trade between their respective peoples
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John Cabot found Newfoundland
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De Gama set sail to make his way around Cape Good Hope.
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De Gama became the first European to set foot on Indian soil.
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Afonso de Albuquerque was an explorer who traveled to India
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(Actual Date Unknown) After two voyages around America, King Ferdinand elected him chief navigator for Spain.
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Lead the empire of Kongo from 1509-late 1542
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The first time we enslaved africans.
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Bartolome de Las Casas goes to conquer Cuba
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Francis I of France begins his reign of France
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Cortes reaches Tenoichtitlan to conquer the Aztecs
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(Exact date unknown) Spanish conquistador who traveled through much of the Pacific coast of America along Peru. Conquered Incan Empire, stealing massive amounts of gold, silver, and other treasures. Explored South America.
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Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano sailed at the behest of Francis I of France, who was motivated by indignation over the division of the world between Portuguese and Spanish. Verrazzano explored the Atlantic Coast of North America, from South Carolina to Newfoundland, and was the first recorded European to visit what would later become the Virginia Colony and the United States.
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Jacques Cartier makes his first voyage to find the middle passage
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Matteo Ricci makes it to Macau.
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The States-General offered a high reward for anybody who successfully navigated the Northeast Passage.
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Between 1609–1611, after several voyages on behalf of English merchants to explore a prospective Northeast Passage to India, Kingdom of England England's Henry Hudson, under the auspices of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), explored the region around present-day New York City
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Between 1600 and 1800, approximately 300,000 sailors engaged in the slave trade visited West Africa.
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Lord Macartney takes a trip to China
