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In 1450 Portuguese mariners were able to overcome the obstacle of the North winds and Southern currents by creating caravel ships that could use the wind to carry them home

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Spain becomes united and the Spanish start to spread out in hopes of concurring neighboring lands

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Columbus accidently lands in the Bahamas while he was trying to head west to the Indies

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Columbus returned to Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican republic today) with 17 ships that unloaded 1200 men as well as cattle, swine, and horses that end up spreading all across the continent

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The Treaty of Tordesillas was claimed by Spain in order to secure the findings of Columbus and dividing Portugal from the New World

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Ponce de Leon explores the Florida area

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Ferdinand Magellan departed from Spain with 5 tiny ships and landed on the tip of South America after beating through storms. He was killed by the inhabitants of the Philippines and his last remaining ship arrived back home in 1522 making this the first circumnavigation of the globe

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Verrazano explores eastern seaboard of North America for France

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Pizarro crushes Incas

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Cartier journeys up the St Lawrence river

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Iroquois confederacy is founded and binds together 5 of the Indian Nations (Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas and Senecas)

Around the same time Spanish conquistadors fan across New World

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Elizabeth I becomes queen of England which cause Protestantism to be dominant because of the new queen

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English crush Irish uprising started by the forceful spread of Protestantism

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Drake circumnavigates the globe

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Raleigh finds "lost colony at Roanoke Island which led to several English failures at colonization

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England defeats Spanish Armada which marked the beginning of the end of Spanish imperial dreams

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James I becomes the king of England

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Virginia colony founded at Jamestown