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A huge outbreak in Europe that was carried by rat fleas. Killed 25 million people, one-third of the population. The black death originated in China, and spread the way of the Silk Road and by ship. The most common sympton was Bubos. They fromed around the groin, neck, and armpits. They ozzed pus and bled when opened.
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The inventor of the first gun is unknown. Guns have helped all types of explorers. It was easy for them to kill Native Americans with the new weapon.
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Caravels are built by attaching wood planks to a frame. This method was called carvel build, or carvel planking.This type of method enables longer ships and better sailing rigs.
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The Guttenberg bible is printed on a printing press that uses moveable type. This invention made it possible for books to be made inexpensivly. As a result, knowledge began to spread more rapidly than ever before. The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire, by the German Johannes Gutenberg .
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Proplr would use a sextant to measure the angle between and two objects. Usually a celestial object and the horizon.
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This treaty divided the world's undiscovered lands between Spain and Portugal. The Pope decreed that all lands discovered west of a meridian 100 leagues (300 miles) west of the Cape Verde Islands should belong to Spain while new lands discovered east of that line would belong to Portugal.
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It was columbus's objective to sail until he reached Asia. He first stopped at the Canary islands because of the lack of wind. He then went westward.
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Amerigo Vespucchi explores along the coast of South America and decides it is a new continent and is not part of Asia. The continents were named after him. Originally, South America was just going to be named America after him, but, both continents became known by his name.
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Smallpox was brought by the Europeans, and begins to wipe-out the native populations in the Americas.
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Martin Luther was a Christian theologian and Augustinian monk.On holoween in 1517, he nailed 95 theses on the door of theRoman Catholic church.
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The Aztec Empire falls to the Spanish forces. The capital of New Spain (Mexico city) is built on the ruins of Tenochitlan.
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Te Incan emperor is hanged by the Spanish Conquer, Pizzaro. Spain takes over the Inca Empire which was already being destroyed by a smallpox epidemic and civil war.
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Sir Francis Drake was the first person to circumnavigate the world. He became a captain in 1567 and lead several voyages to the carribean.
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The destruction of Spain's great armada by Francis Drake and another commander makes England the world's greatest sea power. The Spanish Armada consisted of 130 ships, including 22 fighting galleons.
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Dutch explorers discover australia. The Dutch Captain Willem Jansz might have made landfall on Cape York, and charted 300 kms of the coast of a new continent without realising it.
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I chose these 15 dates because most of these dates were important for explorationa and expanding countries. Others were inmportant for technology. I included the fall of some empires which i think are essential in exploration.
