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Prince Henry founds navigation school for Portugal
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Bartolomeu Dias got passed the cape of good hope
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Vasco da Gama started exploring the east coast of Africa
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Vasco da Gama reaches the port of calicut
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Vasco da Gama returned to Portugal with spices
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Portugal makes a massive trading Empire in the Indian ocean and took control of Muslim spice trading posts and ships with the help of cannons
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Portugal takes control of Goa and makes it the capital of their trading empire
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Portugal strengthens its hold on trade by building a fort in Hormuz
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Ferdinand Magellan landed in the Philippines and claimed the islands and kept moving on in their expeditions
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The new independent Dutch nation builds trading headquarters at Batavia in Java an island in the East Indies