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Northern Renaissance
Age of exploration
Cortez: 1519
Pizzaro: 1531
Spanish set up colonies in americas
1518 - Atlantic slave trade begins
Colonialism Begins
1517 - Protestant Reformation
Renaissance + Exploration Protestant Reformation
Classical Ideas New Ideas Freedom from Catholic Church
Math (Science, math, medicine, astronomy)
Science
ALL = Scientific Revolution
1500s + 1600s
English, Dutch, French begin to explore in north amrerica, india, south east asia, pacific islands. Portuguese clash with the ottomans in indian oceans.
1588 - spanish armada defeated by British
Songhai, benin - trade slaves for guns ( and other things) with the europeans.
China restricts europeans to trading on coast.
Japan is still going through their feudal period. Not trading with europeans.