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Period: 1800 BCE to 800
The Maya
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Period: 1200 BCE to 600 BCE
The Olmec
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1095
Pope Urban calls for Crusades in the Holy Land
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1200
Europe is a farming economy
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Period: 1200 to 1521
The Aztec
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1271
Marco Polo travels to the East
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1289
Crusades end
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1293
Polos journey home
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1298
Polo imprisoned and writes his book
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Period: 1300 to
The Renaissance
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1400
Printing press invented
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Period: 1400 to 1532
The Inca
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1415
Portugal captures Fortress of Ceuta
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1419
Portugal discovers Madeira islands
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1427
Azores islands discovered by Portugal
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1434
Successful voyage around the cape
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1469
Catholic Spain unified
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1488
Dias reaches eastern of south africa
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Oct 14, 1492
Columbus lands in the new world
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1519
Cortes invades the Aztec
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1529
Pizarro invades the Inca
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1532
The Inca fall under Pizarro
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Thomas Hobbes writes The Leviathan
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John Locke writes The Second Treatise on Government
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The United States declares independence
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France writes the declaration of rights of man
