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Prince Henry Started a navigation school in. He did this so that children and young adults had better knowledge of sailing, had training in navigation, mapmaking, and science in order to sail down the West Africa.
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Bartolomeu Dias reached what was believed back then to be the southern tip of Africa. They named it Cape od Good Hope.
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Columbus reached the Carribean around 1492 and named the place where he found the island San Salavador. After a few month of sailing around the carribeans, he left some of his men with a set of instructions on how to treat the natives with respect, and he later left for Spain.
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The Treaty of Torsedillas was a treaty between Portugal and Spain in 1494. They agreed to divide the Western hemisphere between them. It was created to prevent conflict between Spain and Portugal for whhich land they should receive discovered by Christopher Columbus.
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Vasco De Gama reached the port of Calicut in 1498. When they went back to Portugal on a 3 month journey, many of his men died from scurvy.
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Ferdinad Magellan reached the island of Homonhon in the Philippines. They traded gifts with Rajah Kolambu of Limaswa ,who helped guide them around Cebu. Rajah Kloambu accepted them with hospitality, but Lapu- Lapu did not welcome them the same.
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With the arrival of Miguel Lopez De Legazpi, Spanish settlement began. They established the first settlement of San Miguel on the island of Cebu. THe expedition continued northward, and they reached the bay of Manila on June 24 1571.
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In 1619, The Dutchestablished a trading center in Java. Establishing this trading centers helped the commercial success of the Dutch.
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it was a commercial enterprise, founded in 1664 to compete with the British and Dutch East India companies in colonial India. It planned by Jean-Baptiste Colbert and was chartered by King Louis XIV
