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Age of Exploration by Beverly Beckner

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  • Compass was invented
    Jan 1, 1100

    Compass was invented

  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    Age of Exploration

  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    Commercial Revolution

  • Bartolomeu Dias sails around the Cape of Good Hope
    Jan 1, 1488

    Bartolomeu Dias sails around the Cape of Good Hope

    Sails Cape of Good Hope at the Southern tip of Africa and finds the route to the Indian Ocean.
  • Christopher Columbus left Spain
    Aug 1, 1492

    Christopher Columbus left Spain

  • Columbus' Fleet Lands at San Salvador
    Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus' Fleet Lands at San Salvador

  • Period: Jan 1, 1493 to Dec 31, 1504

    Columbus Makes Three More Voyages to the "Indies"

  • Period: Jan 1, 1497 to Dec 31, 1504

    Amerigo Vespucci crosses the Atlantic several times

    Part of Spanish and Porteguese expeditions
  • Vasco da Gama lands in India
    Jan 1, 1498

    Vasco da Gama lands in India

  • Perdo Cabral set sail westward for India
    Jan 1, 1500

    Perdo Cabral set sail westward for India

  • Porteguese conquered part of the southwest coast of India
    Jan 1, 1510

    Porteguese conquered part of the southwest coast of India

  • Vasco Nunez de Balboa of Spain made an overland crossing
    Jan 1, 1513

    Vasco Nunez de Balboa of Spain made an overland crossing

    The crossing was an overland crossinf of the Isthmus of Panama
  • Ferdinand Magellan sets out from Spain
    Jan 1, 1519

    Ferdinand Magellan sets out from Spain

    Intentions to cross the Atlantic to South America... found himself in the Pacific OCean which he himself had named.
  • Spain annexed Portugal
    Jan 1, 1580

    Spain annexed Portugal

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