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In Europe their was a huge outbreak of the black death, carried by ratfleas. it killed over 25 million people, one third of all of Europes population. But many Europeans eventually became immune to the disease and it became less and less effective.
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major improvments upon sailing ships allowed for much longer distance travel. and it allowed for exploration of different continents and the discovery of them.
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Prince Henry the navigator organizes a school of navigation. to base on explorations on capt st vincent inportugal.
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Zheng as captan of the first ship to reach africa. Left from hong kong and was the first of the chinese ships to reach africa, they docked at the cape of good hope.
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First auction where prisoners from africa were put on the market for free labor. this began in portugal than began to happen everwhere.
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Columbus discovers the west indies "the new world" he also noticed on this voyage that the compass slowly changes direction based on longitude.
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The last of columbus's 4 voyages to the new world.
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Christopher columbus died from gout in 1506
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portuguese explorers reach the spice islands on their voyage to the east indies.
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Small Pox spread to the new world by the europeans, the unknow desease to natives wiped out 80% of the base population.
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fall of the aztec empire to the spanish forces. and they built the new capital right over the ruins of tenochitlan.
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lima on the peruvian coastal line was found by spanish conquorers in 1535
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Saint Augustine found in florida is located by spanish conquorers in 1565
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Dutch navigator willem janszoon blown off course discovered australia. in 1606
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I chose the first few to show how the later discoverys were posable. for example the improvment on ships and schools for navigation were much help. and than i did the major dicoverys that i found important like the discovery of the new world and the discovery of australia. and i did the major explorers lke christopher columbus and other important events like the fall of the aztecs do to the spanish, who had to sail for months to reach them.
