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Zheng He, the famous Chinese explorer, will set off on his first voyage.
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Portugal would cpome to have many navigation schools becasue Prince Henry wanted to travel and take over the spice trade, and convert people to Christianity.
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This policy would end up leading to the fall of Ming China. China would only trade with certain people, and would isolate themselves from everyone else.
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Christopher Columbus will discover America(not the first person), thing that he has landed in India.
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The Portuguese and the Spanish agree on an even line to split the newly discovered land. This is important becsue it is the main reason that people in these two areas speak Spanish and Portuguese.
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Vasco de Gama foinally finds a trade route to India, and will set up a trading post in Calicut. This will lead to the eventual success the Portuguese had in the spice trade.
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This leads to the moving of the capital from Kyoto to Edo. Also, he founds the Tokugawa shogunate. He even made the alternate attendance policy, for daimyos, which states that they have to come and live a year in Edo with their family every other year. This shogunate will last for 250 years.
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The Ming dynasty is overthrown, and the Qing dynasty annd the Manchus will take over and earn China's respect by following Chinese customs.
