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Marco Polo returns to Europe with stories about the East.
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Portugal decide to try to find a route to Asia.
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Christopher Columbus lands in the Bahamas
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Hernan Cortes leaves Cuba to go to Mexico
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Aztecs attack the Spanish
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Smallpox epidemic burns throughout the Valley of Mexico
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Ferdinand Magellan completees the first circumnavigtion of he globe
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King Hengry VIII breaks from Roman Catholic Church
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Incas of Peru are crshed by Francisco
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lands on North Carolina's Roanoke Island
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Spanish vs. English; English win
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Virginia is founded
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Tobacco culture is perfected
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First Africans arrve in Jamestown
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Maryland is founded
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Christians are tolerated but Jews and athesist are not.
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slaves get no rights
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Carolina is created
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Pueblo kills and destroys Catholic Church
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