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The Maya were indigenous people who lived in the Yucatan Peninsula and modern-day Guatemala.
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The Olmec were indigenous people who lived along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in what is now southern Veracruz and Tabasco states in southern Mexico.
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Pope Urban calls for Crusades in the Holy Land.
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Europe is self sufficient and does not have an extensive trade network.
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The Aztec were indigenous people who lived in modern-day central and southern Mexico region.
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The Inca were indigenous people who lived in modern-day Peru.
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Marco Polo journeys to the east, learning and discovering new cultures.
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The Muslims remained in the Holy Land.
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Polos begin to return to Venice with goods from the east.
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Polo got imprisoned in Genoa, and got encouraged to write a book while imprisoned.
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A time period where Europe studied Greece and Rome.
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This was the start of Portugal's goal of controlling the gold market.
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Portugal discovered the Madeira islands as a result of Prince Henry the Navigator's financing.
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Portugal discovered the Azores islands as a result of Prince Henry the Navigator's financing.
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Prince Henry's ships made the first successful return voyage around Cape Bojador.
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Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press.
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This marriage unified Spain and began to build a nation.
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Bartolomeu Dias sailed around the tip of Africa.
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Columbus sailed west and made land fall, believing he had landed in the east Indies.
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Cortez and his Spanish conquistador's journey through the Aztec's cities, recruiting the conquered peoples of the Aztec empire along the way.
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Pizarro and his Spanish conquistador's invade the Inca, while the Inca are distracted by a civil war.
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Due to the Inca being weakened by a civil war and diseases, and the Spanish having more advanced weapons, Pizarro was able to conquer the Inca.
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Thomas Hobbes used reason and not religious thinking to write about his opinions on man, the government and kings.
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John Locke also used reason and not religious thinking to write about his opinions on man, the government and kings.
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The 13 colonies declare independence from the British Crown.
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The French declare independence from the French crown.
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Haiti slaves rebel against the French, fighting for and winning independence.
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Bolivar fights for independence from Spain after the Napoleon invasion.
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Bolivar liberates the Spanish out of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador, and he creates Gran Columbia.
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Jose de San Martin leads the battle that wins Peru's independence from Spain.
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After an 11 year rebellion started by Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
