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The Mayans were expert builders and constructed magnificent cities which lead to their culture flourishing.
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Even though the Olmecs were the earliest Mesoamerican civilization, their beautiful and intricate artwork skills helped them develop into an advanced empire.
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Pope Urban called for the Crusades in the Holy Land against the Muslims.
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Europe was still a farming economy that grew food for itself and had not experienced trade yet.
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The Aztec empire's capital was Tenochtitlan and the civilization was known for its complex buildings and helpful inventions
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Marco Polo travels East to Asia with his father and uncle to experience Asia goods.
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The Crusades ended and Europe had still not seized the Holy Land from the Muslims.
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Marco Polo starts his 3 and a half journey back home to Europe, taking Asia goods with him.
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Marco Polo gets captured and writes the Travels of Marco Polo about his travel to Asia experience.
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During this timespan, Europeans started to explore the outside world which helped open up their eyes to new ideas.
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Unlike any other empire, the Inca were able to create a complex government, come up with a dialect, and designed a lot of helpful tools like quipu which was used to keep track of records.
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The Portuguese capture the Fortress of Cueta in Africa.
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Prince Henry funded the work of scientists which helped lead to the discovery of the Maderia Islands.
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Prince Henry funded the work of scientist which helped lead to the discovery of the Azores Islands
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Prince Henry's ship was the first ship to successfully make it around the cape of Africa.
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The printing press, invented by Johann Gutenberg, helped the European people write about their journeys and learn about different lands.
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When Ferdinand and Isabella get married, unifying Catholic Spain.
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When Bartolomeu Días finally made it around the tip of Africa, reaching the eastern coast of South Africa.
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When Ferdinand and Isabella finally agreed to finance Columbus's expedition
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After Hernan Cortes entered Tenochtitlan, he asked the Aztec leader, Montezuma, to convert, and when he declined, Cortes attacked the Aztec and took the leader hostage.
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Pizarro invaded the Inca's land with the granted license, and after Atahualpa rejected their religion, the Spanish attacked the Inca with deadly weapons.
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After Pizarro took Atahualpa hostage, he forced him to convert to Christianity, and when he agreed, the Spanish burned him to death and conquered Inca.
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As a result of scholars and philosophers debating government issues from different perspectives, Thomas Hobbes wrote his book, The Leviathan in 1641.
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As a result of scholars and philosophers debating government issues from different perspectives, John Locke wrote, The Second Treatise on Government.
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The colonist wanted a revolution, so they wrote the Declaration of Independence from the British and established the United States of America.
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The French didn't like the inequality of their government, so they began the French Revolution and drafted the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
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Jean-Jacques Dessalines united all colors to expel the French and with his help, the colony was declared free on November 29, 1803, and given the name of Haiti to emphasize the break with European colonialism.
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Bolívar and his men began the Campaña Admirable by invading Venezuela to defeat the Spanish for good.
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After claiming more territory, Gran Colombia was created under Bolívar's new government.
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Martín was able to take Peru and proclaim it independent from Spain.
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Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla creates a rebellion against the Spanish to fight for Mexico's independence that came in 1821.
