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The Pope called for a series of holy wars to win back the Holy Lands from the Muslims in the East.
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The Commercial Revolution was new change due to commerce, and or trade. In the new order, the Commercial Revolution led to a movement of goods and trade that shifted power from the countryside of the manors and estates to the cities. The landlord became less powerful while the merchant class became even more powerful
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In this year Marco Polo was born to a family of merchants in Venice, Italy where there was lots of commerce and trade.
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They began their journey back home from East and South Asia and the Middle East. He came home with ivory, jade, jewels, porcelain, silk, and several hundred passengers, but most of the passengers dies from storms and diseases
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In this year Marco Polo captained a ship in a battle against Venice's rival city, Genoa. He was captured as a prisoner of war but while he was he met a writer to influence him to write a book about his journeys. This book made him very famous and this influenced other people to go explore.
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The renaissance is beginning to increase. People start having new ideas for new inventions
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In this year the printing press invented by German Johann Gutenberg. This was the most important invention through the Renaissance and maybe the history of the world
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Montesinos is the first Spaniard to protest the poor treatment of the natives in the new world
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De las Casas speaks out against the indigenous peoples in Spain.
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Where people made great studies in science and mathematics. People made new inventions such as the Scientific Method