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Catholics wanted to take the Holy Land from the Muslims. -
Crusades saw the new products and goods and it opened their eyes. -
Marco Polo was born in Venice, Italy. He was born to a family of merchants. -
The Polos came home by ship. They brought back ivory, jade, jewels, porcelain, and silk. -
Marco Polo captained a galley-ship against Genoa. He was captured as a prisoner of war. After, he wrote a book that inspired others to travel and trade. -
The discovery encouraged Prince Henry and entourage of explorers and scientists to navigate farther south along the coast of Africa -
This encouraged Prince henry and his entourage of explorers to navigate farther south along the coast of Africa. -
One of Prince Henrys ships made a successful return voyage. -
This unified Catholic Spain and began the process of building a nation that could compete for global power. -
Columbus presented his plan of sailing to the west to the reach the spice islands. -
Días reached the eastern coast of South Africa -
The agree to finance Columbus's expedition. They supplied him with three ships -
He achieved the dream of King Joâo ll. -
The Portuguese set up trading posts in Africa and collected gold and silver. The Portuguese realized it would be easier to access the gold by sea. -
He used reason and not religious thinking to explain their beliefs about man. -
He used reason to explain their beliefs about their government and kings. -
They called for a revolution and wrote this from the British Crown -
four social groups on the island -
The declaration says Men are equal and laws come from people -
Led to the independence of Haiti -
Ended slavery as well as French control over the island -
Bolívar was disappointed in Napoleon's coronation. -
He rang the church bells and told the people of Dolores to take up arms. -
Marked the beginning of the Campaña admirable -
He proceeded to his original plan which was the capture Lima -
Many banks failed, like the Bank of St. Louis. Austin lost his entire fortune. -
Austin was the first person to get permission to bring Anglo settlers into Texas. -
This was under Bolívar's new government. -
Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla motivated and put in effort for them to gain independence. -
Life in texas was hard. -
Mexico proclaimed that they would be governed by a president, have a congress to make the laws, and create a federalist gov. -
The town was in Austin County along the Brazos river -
He was the supreme leader of Peru -
Austin was able to acquire contracts for four more colonies -
He started the Republic of Fredonia and declared independence from Mexico -
San felipe had between 100 to 200 residents. -
He writes in his report about Texas -
Written to give Mexico more control over Texas -
Texans wrote a series of statements -
Texans listed their grievances and present their requests to Santa Anna. -
surrendered the next morning and San Antonio was under Texan control. -
they had supply mules and Burleson ordered men to stop the Mexicans and take their supplies. -
Santa Anna had decided that Mexico was not ready for a democracy. -
Texans were concerned and called for a meeting -
it was given to them to protect against Indian attacks -
A smirkish broke out, and the Mexicans retreated. -
During a break in the fighting, the two sides tried to reach an agreement. -
they defeated thirty Mexican soldiers in a suprise attack -
the treaty officially recognized Texas as an independent country. -
Santa Anna ordered all Texans to be put to death. -
Main battle lasted only 30 minutes. -
three separate groups were marched out of the presidio and executed. -
They shouted "Remember the Alamo!" and "Remember Goliad!"