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About 1418 Prince Henry started the first school for ocean navigation, along with an astronomical school at Sagres, Portugal. In these schools people were trained in navigating, map-making, and science, all in order to be able to sail down the west of Africa.
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In 1486 King João II assigned Dias to command a voyage with both spiritual and material goals.
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On this day Columbus landed on a small island he called San Salvador. In fact Columbus didnt know he had landed in the Carribeans, but that he had reached the Indies instead,
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Gama found nothing here and was forced to return with no discovery and the few spices he had purchased there.
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He was the first ever European to reach these islands.
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Navigator Miguel Lopez de Legazpi arrived in the Philippine Islands and established the Spanish East Indies.
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Established when the States-General of the Netherland granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia.
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In 1603 the first permanent Dutch trading post was put up and established in Banten, West Java. In 1611, another was built in Jayakarta.
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This treaty divided newly discovered lands outside of Europe, between Spain and Portugal. The lands to the east of the meridian would belong to Portugal and the lands to the east would belong to Spain.
