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|a Portuguese navigator who sailed around the southern tip of Africa to establish a sea route to India.

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|a Portuguese navigator who sailed around the southern tip of Africa (the Cape of Good Hope) in 1487 to establish a sea route to India

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|Reconquista

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|(722-1492 AD) Was the regaining by Christians of Spain and Portugal, which ~~was~~ under Muslim control.

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|(AD 722-1492) Was the regaining by Christians of Spain and Portugal, which had been under Muslim control.

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|Treaty of Tordesillas

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|locomotive

|developed in the early 1800s; it allowed man for the first time in history to travel faster than on horseback

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|King James Bible

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|(1611) the magnificant English translation of the Bible, authorized by King James, which had a positive influence on the development of the English language itself

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|Jamestown settlement

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|(1607) the first successful English settlement in the New World, in what is now Virginia

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|Vasco da Gama

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|the first explorer to reach India by sailing eastward around Africa, between 1497 and 1499, with the help of the powerful monsoon winds. This established trade with India under the Portuguese King Manuel.

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