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Their culture flourished in El Péten, and there they have some of the tallest pyramids, constructed cities, developed a highly accurate calendar, and over centuries they built intricate buildings and created art.
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The Olmec is the earliest Mesoamerican civilization and flourished, while buildings great cities.
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Pope Urban wants to Crusade against Muslims to convert them to Christianity.
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Europe shifted its focus to trade or buying and selling of goods.
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The Aztec established a royal dynasty, and used their lands of natural resources to their advantage.
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Marco Polo went on a journey.
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Crusades opened Europe's eyes to the rest of the world.
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Polo and his family returned with many goods.
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Marco met a writer from Pisa who encouraged him to write a book about his travels.
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Europeans started studying Greek writings, arts, economics, mathematics, and science. (learned about new cultures)
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The Inca were more independent than the other civilizations. They did not have many customs, such as no written languages and were self sufficient.
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Portugese captured fortress of Ceuta
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Prince Henry founded Madeira Islands.
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Prince Henry founded Azores islands.
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Prince Henry's ship made it around the cape successfully.
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Johan Guttenburg created printing press.
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Ferdinaded of Aragon and Isabella of Castille unified Catholic Spain
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Bartomula dies and finally made it around the tip of Africa.
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Columbus founded island he named Hispaniola. (Present day Dominican Republic)
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The conquistadors reached Tenochitilan, Montezuma, the Aztec ruler, met Cortes and believed that he was sent by Quetzalcoatl, but soon realized he was a Spaniard, but Cortes took him hostage, and therefore searched for gold across the Aztec civilization.
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Pizarro returned to Spain seeking for royal approval to colonize Peru, and The queen granted Pizarro a license to discover and conquer Peru.
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Pizarro used natives and created allies with them, and allowed Pizarro to gain insight about the Inca, and therefore her conquered Atualpha, the Incan ruler, and used him as a puppet leader and caused the Incan empire to fall.
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New beliefs were being created of others perspectives of man and government, and people were thinking government in the own life preferences, and so Thomas Hobbes wrote a book The Leviathan.
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John Locke wrote The Second Treatise on Government as a contrast to Hobbes's book, and talks about his perspectives of man and government, and states, that all mankind are equal, and believes that government should have set laws and consider what state men are actually in.
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Great Britain had defeated France and were forcing colonists to pay taxes and contributes, so they turned to the ideas of the philosophers, and they called for a revolution and wrote the Declaration of Independence in the Unites States of America.
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France is being forced by the French to pay taxes, because of the war that is going on between them in Great Britain, so they revolt against their monarchy, and began the French Revolution, where they took the American Declaration of Independence and made their draft of Declaration of the Rights of Man.
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The French are expelled from Haiti. The colony was declared free, and named Saint Domingue Haiti to show the break with European colonialism.
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After fighting against the Spanish once, Bolívar planned another attack and led an army to Caracas naming the country a republic. He gave it's leader a title pf Liberator.
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Bolívar led an army filled with men to Carabobo and won the difficult battle.
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Revolutionaries declared Peru independant from the Spanish, and San Martín their colonies protector.
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Hidalgo started a social rebellion fighting for political independence, and eventually independence came and it transferred power to the former colony.
