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Period: Jan 1, 1200 to Jan 31, 1300
Navigators fix a magnetized needle to a card marked with directions to create a true compass
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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Age of Exploration
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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to Jan 31, 1500
European monarchs support colonization and explorization
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Jan 1, 1430
Prince Henry's navigator's move southward to coast of Africa
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Jan 1, 1488
Bartolomeu Dias sails around Cape of Good Hope at southern tip of Africa
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Aug 1, 1492
Christopher Columbus left Spain
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Jan 1, 1493
Pope Alexander VI issuses edict
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Jan 1, 1498
Vasco da Gama lands in India
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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
The Spain Empire
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Jan 1, 1513
Vasco Nunez de Balboa made an overland crossing of the Isthmus of Panama.
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Jan 1, 1519
Heran Cortez invades Mexico
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Jan 1, 1521
Ferdinand Magellan died on the Philippine islands by islanders
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Jan 1, 1533
Pizarro claims land for Spain
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Portugal regains its independance
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Period: to
Trading Triangle
