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The Catholics tried to conquer Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the Muslims. -
When Europeans were fighting for the Holy land they found themself on new lands, seeing different new ways of life, and saw new goods. -
Marco Polo was born in Venice, Italy, which was the center of commerce. -
After gathering ivory, jade, jewels, porcelain, and Silk, the Polos began their brutal journey back to Europe -
Marco Polo captained a ship into battle against Venice's rival city. -
Portugal captured the Fortress of Ceuta in Africa which was the beginning of the dreams for Portugal, after conquering the area they now controlled the gold market, which boosted Portugals wealth and power -
After the discovery of these Islands, it encouraged Prince henry and other explorers to travel further south along the coast of Africa -
In 1427 the Azores Islands were discovered by Portugal and it influenced Prince Henry the Navigator to keep traveling beyond borders and funding voyages in order to discover new lands. -
After traveling for a very long time, Prince Henry's voyage finally made it back to Portugal after traveling past the cape of Africa, this meant that they were getting a lot closer to India. -
After Ferdinand and Isabella got married Spain could compete for global power and became determined to get the holy land back from the Muslims. -
Cristopher Columbus created a plan and presented it to Portugal in 1485, his plan was to travel farther west to the spice islands, but he was rejected. -
Portugal had been traveling around the coast of Africa for a long time but finally got past the tip of Africa and towards the eastern coast getting closer and closer to India. -
On October 12, Spain made landfall on the New World! This changes the old world completely, new goods were found both in the new and old worlds. People's lives completely changed. It was one of the biggest moments for Spain -
After exploring and traveling for such a long period of time, Portugal finally achieved their goal of getting to India. This made them more powerful and wealthy because they could trade the resources they got from India and Portugal was the only country that knew the right travel route to India. -
This was when Thomas Hobbes gave his opinion on man and government. -
In this writing, John Locke shares his opinion on man and government. -
This was when the United States of America made a paper to declare its independence. -
This is when France gave their opinion on man and government, they wanted to change the way they were living so they created a revolution and won in order to change the policies and gain freedom -
At this time, the slaves realized that they completely outnumbered the free blacks and whites, so they decided to start a rebellion to gain their freedom. -
At this time, the slaves succeeded in getting freedom from France and the whites. The slaves outnumbered the whites by over 400,000 men. -
This was when Napoleon successfully invaded Spain and took control -
This was when Miguel Hidalgo rang the bells early morning and called to take up arms and fight for the rights of the Dolores people -
This was when Bolívar made Venezuela independent. -
This was when San Martín proceeded in a surprise to attack the Spanish Soldiers by sea. -
This was the year that the banks all failed in the United States which created the "Panic" -
Even though young Austin had doubt in his father he was determined, this was the year his family traveled to Texas -
This was when San Martín helped Peru gain its independence from Spain. -
This was when Hidalgo helped Mexico take their independence and gain their rights. -
This was the year that Austin was allowed to start letting settlers into his colony ever since Spain was taken over by the Mexican's, after a long time of waiting, Austin was finally able to keep growing his colony. -
This was when Texas became under the Mexican Constitution which meant they had to follow all the Mexican laws in order to live in Texas. -
This was when Austin decided that his colony needed a government, he found San Felipe, which he soon became the heart of the colony -
This was when the republic of bolivar was created and Bolívar had just become a dictator. -
This was the year that Austin was able to acquire four more colonies to be added to Austin's, Austin got help from José Miguel, Gaspar Flores, José Saucedo, and Erasmo Seguín, without these men's help Austin would not have been given the contract -
This was the day that the Republic of Fredonia declared Independence. Benjamin Edwards helped Texas gain Independence from Mexico -
This was the year that San Felipe had over 150 residents living near him because it was the main town and the government was located there. -
This was the day that a law was created in order to allow Mexico to get control over Texas. -
Texans created these statements in order to tell the Mexicans that they weren't going to attack the Mexican Government and that they wanted to work with the Government -
Texans came together to list their grievances and present their requests to Santa Anna. They supported Anna because of his promise to create a federalist government. -
This was when Santa Anna didn't believe Mexico was ready to have a Federalist Government and became a dictator even though the people disagreed. -
This was the day that San Antonio was taken over by Texans and they defeated all the Mexican soldiers placed there including General Cos. -
This was the day that Deaf Smith comes with a Mexican cavalry to San Antonio in an attempt to take San Antonio back but failed and gave Texans supplies -
This was when the 2 Texas parties were made up of a group that wanted to keep peace with Anna and a group that wanted immediate independence from him. -
This was the day that the Gonzales volunteers made a surprise attack on Mexican soldiers, it led to the Texans raising the "COME AND TAKE IT" to show that Texans were not in agreement with Mexicans. -
This was the day the Texas revolution began because the people of Texas were upset and wanted to be freed from the Mexicans. The event that triggered this was that the Mexico government wanted to take the Texans weapons -
This was the day that Texan soldiers marched to Goliad, they soon after captured the "Presidio La Bahía" and defeated the Mexican soldiers there. -
This was the day that the "Treaty of Velasco" was created and recognized Texas as an Independent country. -
This was the 13-day-long constant bombarding of the Mexican troops to Alamo, Santa Anna declared for every Texan there to be killed. -
This was the day that 600 Mexicans were lost in battle and only 200 Texans, although Mexico won the battle, the Texans put up a great fight and killed triple of how many Texans died -
This was the day that three groups marched out of the presidio and were executed, ordered by Santa Anna. -
This was the day that the Mexican Army was caught napping while Sam Houston and his soldiers attacked, and all Houston's soldiers yelled "Remember the Alamo!!!" in order to show that the soldiers wanted everybody to remember the Alamo.