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This encouraged international trade and banking.
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Queen Isabella financed columbus's voyage... His small fleet landed on a tiny island that columbus named "San Salvador", which today they are known as the Indies.
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In about 1510 they conquered part of the southwest coast of India... They conquered Malacca on the southwest coast of the Malay Peninsula and the Moluccas (A group of Islands)... The also gained footholds in China and Japan... They established a colony in Brazil... Finally, they establsihed several armed trading posts on the East African coast.
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A Spanish explorer who sailed outward from spain, northward and landed on what today is Florida.
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During his reign he;
-He was elected Holy Roman Empreror
-Drained spain's human resources and treasury due to religous wars.
-Spain lacked so much industries, that the country country could not produce enough food for all of its people.
-Between 1500 and 1650 food prices raised multiple times.
-In 1556 Charles realized that ruling the Holy Roman Empire and Spain was to much, he ended up giving up his throne and dividing the land between his family members! -
He inaved Mexico in 1519, with 11 ships and about 600 men... He siezed the aztec ruler Moctezuma II, and captured and destroyed the Aztec city and Tenochtitlan.
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He led the first expedition to sail completely around the world...Proved that the world was round and larger than previously thought... Discovered new oceans and land.... Proved that all oceans and landmasses were connected... He named the great ocean the "Pacific Ocean" because it was calm.
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He led 180 men and 37 horses on an expedition... In 1533 Pizarro claimed the land from present day Ecuador to Chile > For Spain.
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Copernicus developed the "Heliocentric Theory", the sun was the center of the universe... His theory explained many of the then-known facts about Astronomy.
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He told the story of an aging man stuck in the myths of the past.
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He followed Columbus westward... Between 1497 and 1504, was apart of spanish portuguese expenditions... He did not the land he saw was Asia, he called it "the new world".