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Portuguese marines develop the caudal, which helps tham sail more closely into the winds.
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Columbus returnes to Hispaniola, with 17 ships that had cattle swine, and horses.
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Martin Luther nailed his protests against the Catholic Church to the door of Wittenberg’s Cathedral.
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the Aztecs attacke the Spaniards driving them out of technochtitlan.
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King Henry VII broke with the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530’s launching the English Protestant Reformation.
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Slaves trade became big, 40 thousands Africans were carried away to the Atlantic sugar island in the last half of the 15th century.
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Protestantism becomes dominant in England in the 1558, causing the rivalry with Spain to intensify.
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1570’s and 1580’s crushes the Irish uprising
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Sir Humphrey Gilbert loses his life in 1583, Gilberts brother Sir Walter Raleigh try's to complete his dream.
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1585 Raleigh lands on North Carolina Roanoke Island, off the coast of Virginia.
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Philip II Spain forms the “Invincible Armada” for the invasion of England.
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1604 England and Spain sign a peace treaty.
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1.5 million pounds of tobacco are shipped annually and almost 40 million a year by the end of the century.
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Massachusetts puritans establish Harvard College to train local boys for the ministry.
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men outnumbered woman about six to one and three to two at the end of the century.
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troubled ministers announce a new formula for church membership the half way covenant
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Virginia assembly disfranchised most of the landless knockabouts, accusing them of “having little interest in the country”.
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about a thousand Virginians brake out of control led by their leader Nathaniel Bacon.
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rising wages in England minimized the pool of penniless folk willing to buy any more slaves
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black slaves outnumber white servants for the first time
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Virginians establish their first college William and Mary
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The Royal African company loses their monopoly over the sending slaves to the colonies.
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a slave revolt erupts in New York City.
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the black female population in Chesapeake begins to rise, making family life possible.
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another slave revolts erupts in South Carolina