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Pope Urban the II tries to claim back the holy land. This ended up causing a holy war to start. After the holy war, all the merchants began trading and made lots of money. This caused Europe to switch to a trading economy.
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Marco Polo was born into a merchant family in Venice.
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The polo's had just finished traveling through Asia. They were ready to head back with lots of foreign goods. They boarded a boat and made a two-year journey back home.
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Marco Polo was in charge of a galley ship during a battle against Venice's rival city, Genoa.
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This was the start of ground-breaking inventions
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Johann Gutenburg invented the revolutionary printing press. His invention used a Chinese technique that macro polo brought back to europe.
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On a new day Indians were about to start to not have to be enslaved.
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The native Americans were sent to work as slaves in the field and in the mines
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This was when lots of amazing discoveries were made.