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at this time the black death began to spread into europe from rat fleas that spread at a very rapid pace and ended up destroying a huge amount of europes population. its killed over 25 million people in this time
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This is the time that europeans began to discover and create guns that would dominate the rest of the world with its technological advantages
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a grewat improvement in ships was made at this time which greatly improved the ability of travel throughout europe
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around this time the Astralabe was created which allowed navigation by stars. this allowed explorers to navigate their way to and from different areas on expeditions with ease and have less of a chance of getting lost.
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At this time Columbus discovered the west indies in their so called "new world"
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Columbus sailed into the american continent but he believed that it was part of asia and not america
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this was important because this eplorer had shown and demonstrated that this could be done and this would also soark the begginning of major ship building in that area.
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the inca empire expanded alopnt almost all of the west coast of south america
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at this time the end of columbus's last voyage occured ending the eploration and discoveries of him. this greatly helped and expanded what people could do with boats and he demonstrated this.
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at this time the exploreer christopher columbus died
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after sailing around cape horn and also around the world, Magellan and his men with 5 ships return to spain to complete the first round world journey.
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the spanidh conquerers founded this place on an expedition in south america. the was also a demonstration of ship power for europe and expanded the use of boats.
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the explorer Hernando De Soto explored southeastern united states and covered a large part of the area with discoveries
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Sir Francis Drake at this time becomes the first Englishman to completely Circumnavigate the globe.
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I chose these dates and events due to the fact that they all show a great feeat of strength and based on that there were many more things that would add on to those feats. this would begin generating more m\and more expeditionds all trying to top another explorer in some way shape or form and this led to great advancements in technology and also in knowledge.
