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Catholics wanted to take the holy land from the Muslims. -
The commerce of Europe shifted and changed heavily to trade. It eventually started a commercial revolution and power changed. New buildings and goods were manufactured. -
Marco Polo was born in Venice, Italy in 1254 CE into a family of merchants. He will become a great explorer who traveled 5,600 across the silk road. -
Polo traveled back with lots of new goods and information about Asia. Some of the goods were ivory, jewels, and silk. When Polo came back he told everyone what Asia had to offer in trade, this influenced Europeans to travel and trade tooasia. -
In 1298 Polo he fought in a war against Genoa when he was captured and imprisoned. While in prison he wrote a book called "The Description of the World; or, The Travels of Marco Polo" the book was a bestselling book that told stories about his journey the stories were so good that people were skeptical. -
Europeans started looking into Greek and Roman art, maths, and science. -
Marco Polo influenced explorers to travel across their borders and see the world for themselves, which lead to new innovations, urban centers, and a rise of the merchant class. -
Portugal captured Ceuta in Africa, to set up trade posts in Africa and collect Gold and Silver. -
Prince Henry funded Portugal's exploration and led to them finding the Madeira Islands. -
Prince Henry founded explorations and led the Portuguese people to find the Azores Islands. -
Prince Henry had a successful return voyage which motivated Portuguese people to venture farther. -
Johann Gutenberg created the printing press, which allowed more efficient writing of bibles and writings, this made the price of bibles drop because they were much easier to get. -
Ferdinand Of Aragon and Isabella of Castile unified catholic Spain and began building a nation. -
Columbus was rejected on his plan to sail west so he went to Portugal and they let him sail away. -
Bartolomeu Días reached the tip of Africa continuing Henry's legacy and discovering the cape of good hope. -
Christopher Columbus made landfall in Hispaniola when he thought he was in India. -
The voyage of Vasco da Game took place, and they landed in India and achieved King Joâo ll. -
Thomas Hobbes wrote this book to show that men are dumb. -
John Locke says that man is his own limits and they have a reason. -
The United States of America made a Declaration of Independence. "When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands" -
The people of French organized the National Assembly and declared people's rights and men were equal. -
The slaves in Haiti had no rights so they took their number of men and started to rebel against the whites. -
The slaves won and took control over Haiti but realized they need slaves to maintain power. -
Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Spain. -
Hidalgo rang the church bells and he started up a criollo rebel against Spain. -
"Bolívar and his men invaded Venezuela, marking the beginning of the Campaña Admirable." -
San Martin liberated Santiago, Chile. And started to capture Lima. -
Many banks failed and it caused an economic crisis. -
Austin crossed into Texas with his slave Richmond. -
San Martín and his men took control of Peru and named it Independent. -
The El Grito de Dolores stayed fighting and they won their independence from Spain ten years later. -
The Mexican government passed the imperial colonization law, then Stephen F. Austin was granted his land. -
Settlers of Texas moved under this constitution under the government of a president in a federalist government. -
Stephen F. Austin founded the capital of Texas called San Felipe de Austin. -
Bolívar became the dictator of Peru -
Austin got four more contracts to start 4 more colonies in Texas. -
Benjamin Edwards started the Republic of Fredonia and declared independence from Mexico. They were soon shut down by the Mexicans. -
San Felipe had between 100 and 200 residents. -
Teran was sent to inspect Texas and noticed that the Anglos outnumbered the Mexicans and was worried about possible rebellion. -
Mexican government wrote a decree declaring more power over Texas and stopping immigration from the U.S. -
The Texans denied that they were attacking the Mexicans and wanted to work with Santa Anna -
After Santa Anna won the election the Texans formed the conventions where they liked Santa Anna's ways and becoming a federalist government. -
Santa Anna declared himself dictator and later SFA is put in jail for treason. -
People are getting arrested in Anahuac for tax collection. Anglos came together in the consultation and split into a team of peace and a team of war. -
First major campaign. 400 Texans marched to San Antonio. This started a 34-day siege. In the end, the Texans took over San Antonio. -
Ben Millam and 700 men attacked General Cos. In December they captured Cos and his men surrendered and fled past the Rio Grande. Consequently, Ben Milam was killed. -
Erasmus Smith saw a Mexican unit creeping up on San Antonio, a few Texans fighters attacked them and later they found out the mules had no supplies but grass. -
General Cos ordered all Texan's weapons back to the Mexicans and at the Battle of Gonzales. The Texas Revolution had begun -
The Mexicans ordered the Texans to return the cannon, the Texans refused and said "COME AND TAKE IT". The Mexicans retread and the Texans won. -
George Collinsworth and fifty soldiers treaded to Goliad, surprised thirty Mexican soldiers and captured the fort. -
The Treaty of Velasco recognized Texas as an independent country. -
Delegates met at Washington-on-the-Brazos and declared independence from Mexico -
Santa Anna and 8,000 Mexican troops marched to San Antonio to take back what they lost. Houston told Travis to blow up the Alamo and run but they were determined to stay and fight. The Texans only had 150 men and could not get any reinforcements. After holding strong for 13 days the Mexicans killed all but a few Texans and took back the Alamo. -
Jose de Urrea and 1,400 men and started to attack Goliad. The Mexicans surrounded them and Fannin surrendered. Fannin thought his men would be sent away but Santa Anna lined them up and killed 342 men. -
900 Texan soldiers snuck up on Santa Anna and 1,300 of his men. After 18 minutes of fighting the Texans won capturing money, supplies, and Santa Anna.