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Compare And Contrast Marco Polo And Hernan Cortes

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During the Ice Age, sea levels dropped creating a bridge from North America to Eurasia.
35,000 years ago
This gave immigrants a chance to migrate over to the “New World”.
Humans began to travel to America from Asia
33,000 - 8,000 B.C.
This leads to the creation of the earliest civilizations in the Americas.
Columbus’s Discovery
1492
He founded a “New World” that led to the colonization of people from Europe in America.
The Treaty of Tordesillas
1494
This treaty between Spain and Portugal divided the Western Hemisphere between both groups settling conflicts.
Hernan Cortes conquered Mexico
1609
He vanquished the Aztec tribe and claimed Mexico for Spain.

Marco Polo
His journey to China lasted about 22 years and he came back to write

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