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Some Europeans became envious of the Italian`s and the Arab`s trade with Asia.They began to look for different routes to Asia.
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Bartholomeu Dias sailed to the tip of Africa, turned around and went back to Portugal. He named the tip of Africa the Cape of Good Hope because during his entire journey, he always hoped to see it. And then he did.
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Christopher Columbus sailed from Italy west, across the Atlantic Ocean to what he thought was Asia but what is present day North America.
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Pope Alexander VI drew an imaginary line to divide up the land between the Christians, Portugal, and Spain.
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Gama sailed around the tip of Africa to Asia opening up new trade routes for Portugal.
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Amerigo Vespucci sailed from Italy to America. Upon seeing the land, he found that he had not sailed to Asia, but to a new land, a land a German mapmaker named "America" in honor of the sailor.
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Conquistadors explor America and claim the land for Spain.
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Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Portugal hoping to sail around the tip of South America. After he did so, he enetered the Pacific Ocean. Magellan eventually made it to the Phillipines, where he was killed in battle.
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Spain conquered southern North America and northern South America in this time.
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Hernando Cortes leads the conquistadors into the Aztec Empire to defeat them.
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The last ship from Magellan`s voyage reaches home without him, becoming the first people to sail around the world.
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Fransisco Pizarro, a Spanish sailor, voyaged across the Atlantic Ocean to conquer the Incan Empire. He succeeded easily.
