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The Catholics tried to conquer Jerusalem and the holy land from the Muslims. -
Pope urban and the crusades Opened the European people's eyes to new trade, goods, and new land. -
Marco polo was born in Venice Italy and at the age of 17, he joined his father and uncle on their second journey across Asia. -
Marco polo began his journey by a ship returning with jade jewels porcelain and silk. many passengers died on the trip. -
Marco polo was captured by Venice's rival city genoa. meet a writer who encouraged him to start writing. He wrote many books including the adventures of Marco polo and The description of the world. His famous last words I have only told the half of what I saw. -
The Portuguese had the beginning of their dreams and they set up trading posts in Africa. Going after gold -
Prince henry looked and found Madeira island. these discoveries encouraged prince henry to keep on going. -
Portugal found the Azores islands in 1427 which encouraged Prince henry -
Prince henry's first successful return voyage after the first 15 failed. -
Began building a nation that could compete for global power -
Approached the king of Portugal with a plan of sailing west to reach the spice islands. Christopher Columbus was rejected. -
Diaz departed from Lisbon and made his way down the coast of Africa going the furthest anyone has ever gone. -
Made landfall I Hispaniola in present day DR. -
Dias joined de Gama on the voyage by captaining one of the ships until getting to Cape de Verde. -
Talks about one group splitting from another being respectful, these truths make us self evident. -
After seeing the USA France saw how they were being treated unfairly and so they revolted against their king and ended up winning over the power. Then they wrote the declaration of the rights of man which is the equivalent to the declaration of independence. -
Slaves began to realize that they had way more men than the others and that they could get equal power -
This was a Slave rebellion because the slaves were treated so terribly. -
The slaves end up winning the battle against the whites and getting their freedom. -
After then long war between the slaves and the white men, the slaves ended slavery and got control over the island -
Napoleon Bonaparte invades Spain and Bolivar is disappointed that Napoleon betrayed the ideas of the french revolution. -
Miguel Hidalgo rings the church bells asking for people to pick up arms and come fight for their independence. -
Bolivar invades, marking the beginning of the campaign admirable. They were successful and Venezuela became independent. -
He liberated Santiago, Chile where he then began to proceed with his original plan, the capture of lima. -
in 1819 mosses Austin became a part-owner of the st. Louis bank -
Mosses set out for texas with a slave named Richmond they reached east texas in November 1820. -
created under bolivars' new government. Grand Columbia included Venezuela, Columbia, Panama, and Ecuador.. -
Even though it took ten more years to gain their independence they finally got it and Miguel Hidalgo gains their independence from Spain. -
Sam Martin landed in Peru with his army after landing he was able to take the capital and proclaimed Peru independent from Spain. -
After hard work and dedication, Austin was able to get Iturbide to allow Austin's colony to stay. -
Bolivar becomes the supreme leader of Peru and the following year the republic of bolivia was created. -
Austin felt like his colony needed a capital. so he decided to make san Felipe de Austin. it was the most visited city and the highest population. -
The early immigrants into texas were under the spainsh constitution of 1824. In the constitution mexicon proclaimed they would be governe by a president and a congress to make laws. -
of the 1790 colonists living in Austin's colony, 440 of them were enslaved African Americans. The wealthiest of Austin's colonists brought over nearly 90 slaves. -
Benjamin Edwards organized a revolt and took over the old stone fort in Nacogdoches. in 1826 he started the republic of Fredonia and declared independence from Mexico. -
By 1827 Austin's capital had around 100-200 residents and was the most populated city in his colony. -
The Mexican government issued a law and it was written to give the Mexicans more power over the Texans. Mexico also eliminated all immigration to the United States. -
After the Texans see their new freedoms they came together for the conventions of 1832 and 1833 to list their grievances and request for Santa Anna whom they supported. -
Texans went to Anahuac to release the arrested Texans shots were fire and to keep the peace the Texans wrote a series of statements called the turtle bayou resolutions. -
After the Texans see their new freedoms they came together for the conventions of 1832 and 1833 to list their grievances and request for Santa Anna whom they supported. -
Santa anna declared Mexico was not ready for democracy and he declared himself a dictator. His government was not organized and there was a cholera epidemic in Mexico city. -
The Texans defeated general Cos who ened up surrendering and the next morning San Antonio was under Texan rule. -
Erasmus Smith reported that there was a load of Military aid approaching many soldiers were ordered to go take the supplies but it turned out to be a lot of grass n the back of a camel. -
The Texans were concerned with the relationship with Mexico so they called a meeting at this meeting Texas was divided into two groups the peace group which wanted to keep a good relationship with Mexico and the war group which wanted their full independence from Mexico. This meeting was also known as the constitution of 1835 -
The Gonzalez volunteers made a suprise attack at dawn during a break in the war the two sides tried to reach an agreement but the Texans raise a flag the rea "Come and Take It". -
Mexico declared that the Texans return all their weapons back to Mexico including a cannon that was given to them to defend themselves from the natives. They said no and challenged them to come and take it. That was the beginning of the Texas revolution. -
George Collinsworth Ben Milam and fisty other Texas volunteers marched to Goliad and defeated 30 Mexican soldiers. -
The treaty of Velasco officially recognized Texas as an independent country and no longer under Spanish rule. -
At the very start of the siege, the Mexicans consistently bombarded the Alamo for 13 days straight. -
Santa Anna called for all Texans put to death and from this point, the battle lasted 30 minutes. 600 Mexicans lost their lives while 200 Texans lost their lives. -
Three separate groups marched out of presiio and were executed. In the panic of the gunfire, only twenty-eight survived. -
While the Mexican army and Santa Anna we asleep Sam Houston and his army attacked and killed them while chanting " Remember the Alamo" and "Remember Goliad". -
Thomas Hobbes rights the leviathan which gives his opinion on government stating that they need to have a government with a lot of power. -
John Locke gives his own opinion about the government and its power which he stated that the people are smart enough to make their own decisions and the government should not be making these decisions for them.