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  Spain controlled Central, South America, and the Caribbean.
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  Merchants from Europe arrive to Japan for the first time.
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  Portuguese trade was decline from competition
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  In London there were more than 7000 shops of tobacco.
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  Qing Dynasty ruled China.
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  The Shogun ruled Japan.
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  The collapse of the Soviet Union.
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  Spanish lost control of the colonies in the Philippines.
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  by 1790 almost all the population decent.
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  Silver's value dropped.