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The Pope calls for a series of holy wars to take back the Holy Land from the Muslims.
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The crusades sparked travel and trade, causing a major change from feudalism to a trading economy.
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On 1254, Marcoo Polo was born into a familyu of merchants in venice italy.
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Polo began their journey home by ship returning with jade, ivory, jewels, porcelain, and silk.
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Polo was a captain of a ship while in battle against Genoa and was captured.
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The beginning of the Renaissance era.
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1440 is when the printing press was invented by Johann Gutenberg.
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Montesinos is the first to denounce native American mistreatment.
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de las Casas speaks out against native mistreatment in the new world
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Europeans began to study greek and roman arts, writings, math and science