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This is the Maya and how long they stood against other civilizations.
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This is the reign of the Olmec empire.
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This is how long the Aztecs survived.
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Europeans expanded their thinking and created new and improved items.
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This is the Inca empire from their start and end.
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Prince Henry's crew took over the Fortress of Ceuta, and set up trade posts around Africa. On their journey, they discovered new lands in Africa, which then brought up the creation of the Caravel.
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Prince Henry funded the work of scientists and his crew discovered the Madeira Islands.
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Portugal discovered the Azores Islands, which encouraged Prince Henry and his crew to navigate farther south along the coast of Africa.
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Prince Henry wanted to go beyond Cape Bojador, but the seas were extremely rough, and thick fog made it more dangerous. But after 15 failed voyages, Prince Henry's crew made the successful return voyage. This motivated them to venture even farther.
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Johann Gutenberg created the printing press which benefited Europe by making it easier to put writings on paper.
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Ferdinand and Isabella married, unified Catholic Spain and started to build a nation that could compete for global power.
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Bartolomeu Dias led the Portuguese explorations after Prince Henry died. He ventured farther than any explorer did, which then he ended up on the tip of Africa intending to get to India, but the Portuguese refused to go any further.
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Christopher Columbus discovered new lands which he named Hispaniola, which had a great abundance of resources, and lots of different products that Spain traded for.
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Cortez started a war against the Aztec empire with more knowledge and better weaponry than before, using the ways that Pizarro used to conquer the Inca, ending the Aztecs.
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Pizarro ventures to South America and stumbles onto the Inca empire in search of power and conquest. He started gaining more supplies and obtaining allies to fight against the Inca with a high advantage.
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Under the high pressure of fighting off disease and war, The Inca were conquered by Pizarro using his more advanced weaponry, allies, and supplies making the entire empire fall.
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Thomas Hobbes wrote The Leviathan showing his point of view and opinion towards man and the government saying that if one is without control, war and dreadful death will come after.
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Many new enlightened thinkers didn't all agree with Hobbes's point of view, and John Locke wrote "The Second Treatise on Government".
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When Britain put a tax on the Americans so Britain could pay off their war debts, the Americans were mad and wrote the declaration of independence showing their frustration and outrage toward Britain.
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The French had to pay their debts from the American's help in fighting the British. They were paid by people who complained to the king about inequality and then wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man to make it stop.
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All the enslaved Africans and military leader Toussaint L'Ouverture attack the French by killing them and burning down their plantations. This caused the French to retreat back to their homeland.
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Bolivar joined a revolutionary group to expel the king and started to attack the French crown.
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Bolivar and his army successfully overthrow the king that Napolean appointed giving the Spanish their freedom.
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Jose de San Martin and his troops successfully rid the Spanish of Peru.
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Hildago y Costilla and his men fought an 11 year-long battle that eventually rid the Spanish and gave Mexico their freedom.
