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Mansa Musa was very inspiring to the Portuguese, he had an entourage of 60,000 people including 12,000 slaves and a lot of gold.
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Was the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa.
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Began with Christopher Columbus Voyages. Rather then control the trade the empire would control the land and the people who lived there.
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This treaty allocated land to Spain and Portugal. West of the line belonged to Spain and the east belonged to Portugal.
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Explored parts of North America for England. He was interested in finding a westward route to Asia, believing there was a shorter route then what Colombus used.
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He reached India and found highly developed Indian commerce with trading post run by Muslims. This opened up new trading routes.
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He arrived on the coast of Mexico he made his way inland starting battles and starting alliances.
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His ships sailed the globe. Although the conditions on his boat were terrible he harshly punished those who betrayed him. He, like Colombus, had no financial backing for his trip so he went to Spain for funding.
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Another treat that was to establish bounds for each county in the Indian Ocean and public regions.
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The Spanish uncovered huge deposit of silver in Potosi and began conscripting indigenous people to do the dangerous work in the mines.