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The Pope called for a series of holy wars to win back the Holy Land from the Muslims in the East.
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People went on crusades and they were able to see rare goods and resources that they could profit off of, so it caused people to focus on trade and the buying of selling of goods, and shifted the power from feudalism to capitalism.
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This was the time that Marco Polo was born, in a family of merchants in Venice, Italy.
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Marco Polo went home by ship returning with riches and a lot of crew members died.
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Wrote about his adventure but said "I have only told have of what I saw!"
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It was when there was a rebirth in Europe and started having interest in new ideas.
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When Johann Gutenberg made the Gutenberg Press that could make letters really quickly, so messages can be spread quickly around the world.
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Antonio Montesinos was a friar who delivered a public protest against the mistreatment of the Indians.
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Bartolome de Las Casas made a protest of the mistreatment of the Indians like Montesinos.
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Europeans observed the Greek and Romans ideas and built upon them, this started the age of science and technology.