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Catholics wanted to take the Holy Land from the Muslims. -
The Crusades started to open people's eyes to the rest of the world with trade. -
Marco Polo was born to a family of merchants in Venice, Italy. -
The Polo family began their journey home by ship returning with many goods. -
Marco Polo was captured as a prisoner of war and started to write about his journey to and from Asia. -
The new period named the Renaissance began.
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Portuguese captured a Fortress in Africa where they set up trading posts there. -
Portugal discovered the Madeira Islands. -
Portugal discovered the Azores Islands. -
After 15 previous attempts, one of Prince Henry's boats made it to Cape Bajodor. -
Johann Gutenberg invented the Printing Press -
The marriage unified Catholic Spain. -
Christopher Columbus told the king of Portugal about his plan to sail west. -
Bartolomeu Días departed from Lisbon and made it all the way to the eastern coast of South Africa. -
Christopher Columbus landed on an island which he named Hispaniola (the present-day Dominican Republic and Haiti). -
The Portuguese discovered the new trade route to India by sea. -
The period of the Renaissance ended.
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Thomas Hobbes wrote The Leviathan to show that people need a government to rule over them and protect them. -
John Locke wrote about how people should control the government since they are smart enough to make their own choices. -
The Declaration of Independence was written and had many of Locke's ideas within it. -
Writers used the Declaration of Independence to write it and it freed them from the French Monarchy. -
The slaves rebelled against their owners because of their mistreatment. -
He moved to Spain and began looking at the writing of enlightened thinkers. -
He used his power to help the Indians to get resources. -
The slaves ended slavery and became Haiti but they were very poor. -
Bolívar saw this so he went to South America to rebel. -
He rang the church bell so the people could gather their weapons. -
This resulted in Venezuela getting its independence. -
San Martin attacked Santiago in order to help liberate his home country Peru. -
The economy crashed in the United States causing many banks to close which made Moses Austin poor. -
Stephen F. Austin went to Texas to settle and create a colony there. -
Mexico became independent from Spain through Father Hidalgo's help. -
During his revolution, he had enough land to start a country. -
After he captured the capital, Peru became independent. -
Stephen F. Austin had to get approval from the Mexican government to start a colony in Texas. -
His goal was to get a union of nations like the U.S. and rule over them. -
Austin founded a city called San Felipe de Austin to use as a capital for the colony. -
Austin received contracts to establish 4 new colonies. -
Texans and Mexicans fought against his rebellion. -
San Felipe grew to have between 100 and 200 people living in the town. -
He noticed that the Texans were ready to fight or rebel at any moment due to the many armed men. -
This new law gave them more control over Texas. -
They said that they wouldn't go to war and they liked Santa Anna. -
This would allow them to have better schools, mail service, and protection from Native Americans. -
Texans asked Santa Anna for several things such as statehood. -
Texas applied by sending SFA to Mexico to present their opinions. -
He believed that Mexico was not ready to govern itself. -
Conquered San Antonio after Gen. Cos surrendered -
They killed the Mexicans and took their supply mules just to find grass. -
It began after a small battle for the "Come and Take It"cannon. -
In Goliad, they defeated thirty Mexican soldiers in a surprise attack. -
This made Mexico recognize Texas as an independent nation. -
The Mexicans took over the Alamo in just 13 days. -
It ended with 600 Mexican deaths and 200 Texan deaths since Santa Anna spared the women and children. -
Many other men were able to escape allowing the story to get to everyone. -
In 18 minutes, they defeated the Mexicans and captured Santa Anna.