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Zheng He takes his first voyage on behalf of China. He traveled with hundreds of ships on each voyage.
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Prince Henry founds Portuguese navigation schools to help Portugal become the center of the exploration community.
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Ming China stops exploration and begins to islote by devoting resources to building the Great Wall of China.
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Italian explorer Christopher Columbus lands in the "New World" on a voyage supposed to reach Asia on behalf of Spain.
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The Pope divides the new world between Spain and Portugal and they sign the treaty.
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Vasco de Gama finds the first sea route from western Europe to Asia. He goes around the tip of Africa.
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Tokugawa Ieyasu unifies the formerly warring state Japanese by using force and becomes the shogun.
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Manchus take over China and end the Ming Dynasty.
