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Shinto originates in Japan
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Buddhism and Confucianism are brought to Japan
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Muslims conquer Spain
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Reconquista begins
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Vikings visit North America
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The Crusades
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Huitzilopochtli commands Aztecs find new home
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The Crusades End
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Mongols unsuccessfully attack Japan
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European mechanical clock
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Renewed interest in classical learning
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Powerful Italian city-states, growth of trade and commerce
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Aztecs arrive in Valley of Mexico
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Ibn Battuta begins journey
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Black Plague
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The Black Plague Ends
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Gutenberg develops moveable type
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Columbus reaches the Americas
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King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella capture Granada
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Treaty of Tortesillas
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Moctezuma becomes leader of Aztecs
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Spain begins exporting gold and silver from the Americas
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Luther’s 95 Theses
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Cortes arrives in Mexico
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Moctezuma killed, Spanish driven out of Tenochtitlan, smallpox outbreak among Aztecs
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Spanish defeat Aztecs
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Magellan expedition circumnavigates Earth
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Inca Empire invaded by Pizarro
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Constantinople falls to Turks
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Portuguese traders arrive
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Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries arrive
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Montaigne’s Essays published
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Queen Elizabeth I knights Francis Drake
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nine tenths of original population of Americas wiped out
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Will Adams land
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Tokugawa leyasu made shogun
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Christian missionaries expelled
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Galileo sentenced by Church
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Most foreigners expelled
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47 ronin avenge the death of their lord
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Steam engines drive factory machinery
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electric telegraph invented
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Opium war between China and Britain
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Ranald MacDonald meets Ainu
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Commodore Perry arrives in Japan
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last Tokugawa Shogun resigns
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created Five Charter Oath
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Tsudo Umeko sent to US
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first steamboat
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new Japanese constitution
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Sino-Japanese War begins
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Russo-Japanese War begins