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Portuguese sailors had made their first forays into the tempting waters that lay beyond their shores, exploring the Canary Islands off the northwestern coast of Africa.
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Prince Henry of Portugal makes colonies in modern day Brazil.
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Prince Henry of Portugal makes trading post/routes to India
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The Silk Road was found by colonist and used by the many different countries forward on.
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The attempt by Talbot to retake Guyenne, though initially welcomed by the locals, was crushed by Jean Bureau and his cannons at the Battle of Castillon in 1453 where Talbot had led a small Anglo-Gascon force in a frontal attack on an entrenched camp. This is considered the last battle of the Hundred Years' War.
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Christerphor Columbers embarked on a voyage in 1492, he discovered the Caribbean instead but still thought is was Asia
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Spain sends explores on an expedition to explore the New World.
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Christopher Columbus lands in the Caribbean.
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Great Britain explores the New World but explores the western route instead
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Great Britain looked for a western route to Asia for trade, Silk Road, John Cabot found present-day Canada and New England in 1497
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The Portuguese goal of finding a sea route to Asia was finally achieved in a ground-breaking voyage commanded by Vasco da Gama, who reached Calicut in western India in 1498, becoming the first European to reach India.
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Christopher Columbus makes trips from the New World to Spain because he acquired gold and silver.
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In the 1500s, during the Age of Exploration, Spain became the most powerful country in Europe and likely the world. This was due to their colonies in the Americas and the gold and great wealth they acquired from them.
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Around 1508, Juan Ponce de León landed in Puerto Rico and claimed the island for Spain
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Would explore North America at great length, France claimed the cities of Detroit
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France joins the countries race to explore the New World later on.
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England was caught up in a vast European spiral of rising prices, declining real wages, and cheap money. Between 1500 and 1540, prices in England doubled, and they doubled again in the next generation. In 1450 the cost of wheat was what it had been in 1300; by 1550 it had tripled.