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1420
Portuguese ships travel to Africa
Portuguese ships begin traveling southward along the western coast of Africa -
1488
Bartholomeu Dias
Rounded the Cape of Good Hope which was the southern tip of Africa -
Aug 2, 1492
Christopher Columbus
Originally looking for Asia, he stumbled onto the Caribbean islands, where he decided to change his course and look for the "The New World" where multiple Indigenous populations were already civilized -
1498
Vasco de Gama
Arrived to the port of California and collected cargo of spices while he was there -
1500
Pedro Cabral
Arrives in South America and was a Portuguese sea captain -
1502
Da Gama forces a treaty and sets up a trading post
After his accomplishments in India, in 1502 he forced a treaty of cooperation with the ruler of Calicut to be able to set up trade -
1509
Turkish and Indian vs Portuguese
Turkish and Indian ships were defeated by the fleet of Portuguese warships by the coast of India -
Aug 24, 1511
Portugal seizes Malacca
After da Gama was able to set up the trading post, Portuguese were soon taking key ports in the Indian Ocean. In 1511, they took Malacca which helped them trade with Asian leaders -
1518
Slaves Origin
Innocent Africans were taken from their home as they were brought to the Americas to be slaves -
1519
Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico
Conquistador Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico with a hundreds of men, a few hundreds, and a couple of cannons. Him and his men capture and overthrow the capital of Tenochititlan in 1521. This inspired other conquistadors to colonize the Americas. -
Jan 17, 1524
Giovanni Verrazano
Explored the northeast coast of North America from North Carolina to Maine while looking for the Northwest passage to Asia -
Jan 1, 1540
Fransisco Coronado
the first European to explore North America's Sputhwest -
1550
The Spanish and Mexico
The Spanish took control of the north of Mexico. Then Francisco Pizarro led forth an expedition and took control of the Incan Empire -
English merchants discovered the East india Company
Hoping to expose trade in Asia and India, some english merchants from the East India Company by royal charter. With this, the English broke Spanish and Portuguese monopoly of the East Indian spice trade. The company later becomes involved in politics f British imperialism -
Dutch merchants found the Dutch East India company
In the late 1500s, the Dutch set up colonies and trading around the world. A group of rich merchants found the company which proceeded their mission to be the major commercial power in the East. The company soon brought major problem. -
Henry Hudson
Was hired by the Dutch East India Company to find a trade route from the Americas to India. He wasn't successful but he discovered Hudson River, Hudson Bay, and Hudson Strait which were named after him -
Massachusetts Bay Colony
The English found the Massachusetts Bay Colony which only had four thousand people living there but it soon grew to fourty-thousand -
Dutch and Indian Ocean
The Dutch took over Portuguese forts in the Indian Ocean. Thy took these forts which were placed along the trade route of the ocean -
The English
The English built a colonial empire in North America after the Massachusetts Bay Colony started to grow -
Christopher Columbus and a letter
Columbus sent a letter back to the royals of Spain about his adventures
