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Christopher Columbus leaves Spain in order to find a new route to the East.
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Columbus arives in the New World.
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Columbus' triumphet return.
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The Edict drew an imaginary line throught the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Spain got all the lands west of the line, Portugal got everything east of the line.
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An agreement between Spain and Portrugal that moved the line from the Pope's edict further west.
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These crossings were a part of Spanish and Portugese expiditions.
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Vasco da Gama ends his voyage across the Indian Ocean by landing in India.
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Portugese navigator Pedro Cabral gets blown off course while sailing westward to India and lands in Brazil.
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This crossing was of the isthmus of Panama
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Ponce de Leon sailed northward to Florida
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Invaded with 11 ships and 600 men, seizing Moctezuma II.
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Nicoulaus Copernicus publishes his idea that the Earth moves around the Sun
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Spain annexes a weakened Purtugel.
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Had Total control over trading between Netherlands and the East Indies
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Galileo publishes hi discovery of the rings around Saturn, the spots on the sun, and the moons circling Jupiter. His work supported Heliocentric theory.
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Portugal regains independence from Sapin
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