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Dias's expedition reached its furthest point on 12 March 1488
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Christopher Columbus made landfall in what is now the Bahamas. Columbus and his ships landed on an island that the native Lucayan Taino people called Guanahani. Columbus re-named it San Salvador.
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Portuguese and Spanish empires; it accounted for slightly more than 3% of all Atlantic slave trade. in about 1502
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becoming the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World.
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On September 20, 1519, Magellan set sail from Spain in an effort to find a western sea route to the rich Spice Islands of Indonesia.
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the Inca capital fell without a struggle
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