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The start of the Mayan civilization. The Mayan's lived in present day Mexico.
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Viking discovered America first. They sailed in three ships.
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Pope Urban II was responsible for assisting Emperor Alexus I of Constantinople in launching the first crusade. He made one of the most influential speeches in the Middle Ages, calling on Christian princes in Europe to go on a crusade to rescue the Holy Land from the Turks. The Crusade lasted until 1291.
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Marco carried out diplomatic missions throughout the empire. Kublai Khan was so intrigued by the claims of Christ that he said, "You send me a hundred men skilled in your religion and I shall be baptized and all my subjects will study Christianity too." Marco eventually returned to Venice in 1269, carrying a request from the Kublai Khan to pope Gregory X for missionaries to instruct his people in Christianity and European habits.
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Beginning in Italy the Renaissance movement grew and eventually spread throughout Northern Europe. There are two distinct phases to this movement, what is known as the Early Renaissance which began in the south, in Florence Italy around the beginning of the 1300's and it took many decades later to reach the North to begin what is known as the Northern Renaissance. The word renaissance comes from the French word meaning 'rebirth'.
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The Aztec Empire were led by a group that was once nomadic, the Mexicas. Their speakers told them that after their long journey from Aztlán, they found themselves to be outcasts, until they found the sign sent to them by their god Huitzilopochtli, and began to build their city. The city of Tenochitlan was soon to become one of the largest cities in the world.
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The Inca Civilization lasted for three hundred years from the 13th to the 16th century. Getting a true picture of Inca history is difficult because the Incas had no written language and passed their history down orally from one generation to the next. The Incas were a polytheistic people that believed in a variety of gods. Most of the gods they believed in were attached to natural objects such as the sun, the moon, and the earth.
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Columbus led his three ships, the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria out of the Spain on August 3, 1492. His objective was to sail west until he reached Asia (the Indies) where the riches of gold and pearls.
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In 1493 the Pope drew a line on the globe cutting the new world in half. This line was known as the line of demarcation. Any territory discovered on the East side of the line was to be controlled by Portugal, while any lands found on the West side of the line were to be ruled over by Spain. In 1494 Spain and Portugal signed a treaty moving the line further West. This treaty was known as the Treaty of Tordesillas, and divided the new world between these two powers.
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St. Augustine was founded by the Spanish under Admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés in 1565. It is the oldest continuously settled city established by Europeans in the continental United States.
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The city of Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain. Champlain named his settlement after a local native word meaning “the river narrows here.” Samuel's settlement was located at the foot of Cap Diamant, the peninsula on which Old Quebec lies today.
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Virginia's assembly first met in 1619 to make laws for the colony. It was called the Virginia House of Burgesses. The word burgess means a representative who speaks for other people. The Virginia House of Burgesses was made up of wealthy landowners who grew and sold tobacco. It was the first assembly of lawmakers in the English colonies. The Virginia colony had over 1,000 settlers. The first women settlers began to arrive, as well as the first Africans. Africans first came as free men and were p
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The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony. It was written by the colonists, later known as the Pilgrims, who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. Almost half of the Pilgrims were part of a separatist group seeking the freedom to practice Christianity according to their own determination and not the will of the Anglican Church.
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Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest university of higher learning in the United States.
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The Act of Toleration was a document that protected Maryland from the charge of intolerance toward Protestants. When the Protestants were in charge of the colony, Catholics were not protected in their faith, but this document was reinstated with the return of Lord Baltimore as owner.
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Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in the Virginia Colony in North America, led by a planter, Nathaniel Bacon. About a thousand Virginians rose because they resented Virginia Governor William Berkeley's friendly policies towards the Native Americans. It was the first rebellion in the American colonies.
