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He traveled in his extraordinarily large boat to collect wondrous goods for China from all over the world.
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Prince Henry the Navigator established the Navigation School for Portugal in order to instill the art of map-making, navigating, and science among the Portuguese so they could explore.
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Isolation was installed by the Chinese government and made it so that other countries (if they wanted to trade with China) would have to come and “kowtow” to the government.
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Columbus’s first time in America was spent in Hispaniola, where he discovered the Native Americans that he named the “Indians” because he indeed belived that he had reached the West Indies.
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Pope Alexander VI created an imaginary divide, the line of demarcation, between portugal and spain’s land across the world. To agree to the line put in place, the countries signed the Treaty of Tordesillas.
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When Vasco da Gama reached India, he established a port in Calicut. This port made Portugal overwhelming rich practically overnight.
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The emperor at the time, Emperor Go-Yōzei, gave Ieyasu, the title of shogun meaning a military governor. Japan then became under Ieyasu’s control.
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To gain power the Manchus seized Beijing like the Mongols did before. They took a Chinese name and declared the dynasty as the Qing Dynasty.