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The Black Death, a huge outbreak of plauge carried by rat fleas, kills 25 million people, one-third of the population.
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The first gun appears in Europe.
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The first caravel was built.
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The first auction of black slaves takes place in portugal.
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Bartholomeu Dias becames the first European to reach the southern tip of Africa
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Columbus discovers that native Americans use tobacco as a medicine.
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John Cabbot sails from England and explores the North Atlantic region.
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Columbus finds America but believes that it's Asia.
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The Incan Empire extends along much of the west coast of South America.
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Columbus dies.
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Martin Luther starts the Protestant Reformation in Germany.
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Ferdinand magellan leaves Spain with five ships to find a "southwestern passage" to Asia. Hernan Cortez enters te Aztec Capital of Tenochitlan to meet with the Aztec emporer.
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The fall of the Aztec Empire to spanish forces. the capital of New Spain (Mexico City) Is built on the ruins of the Tenochitlan.
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Atahualpa, emporer of the Incas, was strangled with a garrote by the Spanish conqueror Pizzaro. Spain conquers the Inca empire which was already bein destroyed by a smallpox epidemic and civil war.
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Jamestown in Virginia is established by the English.
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a huge deal because it revolutionized war forever. The colonization of Jamestown started the whole colinization of the United States and that ended up creating one of the biggest super power countries in the world today. These are all very important events in history.
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Some may argue that other events held more importance than the ones I chose but they're wrong. I chose these events for many reasons. Diseases killed off many people which is definatley a huge impact. Reaching new places like when Hernan Cortez came to the Americas were important, many people died and their empire was overthrown. The trade of slaves was very important because that started the whole slavery/racism era later on in the U.S. The first guns appearing in Europe was definatley
