In 1488 this Portuguese navigator rescued Duarte Pacheco & several companions on the island of Principe
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Portuguese discoveries - Wikipedia  Portuguese discoveries (Portuguese: Descobrimentos portugueses) are the numerous ... Henry the Navigator took the lead role in encouraging Portuguese maritime ... Portuguese navigators reached ever more southerly latitudes, advancing at an ... found the islands of the Gulf of Guinea, including So Tom and Prncipe.
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Jeopary Questions page 1364 - WHAM-O - TriviaBistro.com  EXPLORATION: In 1488 this Portuguese navigator rescued Duarte Pacheco & several companions on the island of Principe  "F"EMALES: Known for her...
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Bartolomeu Dias | Portuguese explorer | Britannica.com  Aug 19, 2015 ... Portuguese navigator and explorer who led the first European expedition to round the Cape of Good Hope (1488), opening the sea ... proceeding along the coast and sailed south out of sight of land for several days. ... to Dias himself, and that is likely, since Pacheco joined Dias at the island of Prncipe.
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Duarte Pacheco Pereira - Wikipedia  Duarte Pacheco Pereira (c. 1460  1533), called the Portuguese Achilles (Aquiles Lusitano) by the poet Cames, was a Portuguese sea captain, soldier, explorer and cartographer. He travelled particularly in the central Atlantic Ocean west of the Cape Verde islands, along the coast of West Africa and to India. ... Pacheco Pereira was rescued from the island of Prncipe in the Gulf of...
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Portuguese Cartography in the Renaissance - University of Chicago ...  this event, Duarte Pacheco Pereira and Joo de Barros, co- incide in noting that ..... reference to the Portuguese navigator of the same name.57. Portuguese...
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Vasco da Gama - Wikipedia  Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to ... Little is known of da Gama's early life. ... Two of the vessels were as naus or newly built for the voyage, possibly a caravel and a supply boat. ..... after the explorer, such as the Vasco da Gama Bridge, Vasco da Gama Tower and...
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Bartolom de las Casas - Wikipedia  Bartolom de las Casas was born in Seville in 1484, ... With his father, Las Casas immigrated to the island of Hispaniola in 1502 on the expedition of Nicols de Ovando. Las Casas became a hacendado and slave ... In 1510, he was ordained a priest, the first one to...
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Magellan Was Not the First Person to Circumnavigate the Globe ...  Sep 19, 2013 ... His ambition was spurred on by the adventures of previous ... of First Voyage Around the World), wrote that the slave was one of the ... After Magellan's death on April 27, 1521, the captain of the Santiago, Juan .... It would be another 58 years before a second circumnavigation of the globe was completed by...
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Portuguese discoveries - Wikipedia  Portuguese discoveries (Portuguese: Descobrimentos portugueses) are the numerous territories and maritime routes discovered by the Portuguese as a result of their intensive maritime exploration during the 15th and 16th centuries. Portuguese sailors were at the vanguard of European overseas exploration, .... Using this new maritime technology, Portuguese navigators reached ever...
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By: Jon K. Thornton Footsteps, 15215865, Jan/Feb2006, Vol. 8 ...  The Portuguese pioneered the transatlantic slave trade in the mid-1500s. ... then transported these captives to their colony of Brazil in South America, and, after ... Many of the first Africans in America came from Angola on the west-central coast...
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Christopher Columbus facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia ...  Once established in Madeira, he sailed with the Portuguese as far as Mina ... Columbus submitted his plan for a voyage of discovery to the Portuguese king. ... In 1485 or 1486 Columbus moved to Spain, but little is known of his activities there. .... south, convinced that he would soon reach the long-sought passage to India.
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A Brief History of Brazil - StudyCountry.com  In the following article we will concentrate on the history of this proud country, beginning with its early indigenous people to the modern Brazil we know today. ... Pedro Alvares Cabral led a Portuguese expedition to the Indies in 1500, during ... Cabral claimed the land for Portugal and named it Ilha de Vera Cruz (Island of the...
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THE AGE OF DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION  Prince Henry "The Navigator", Christopher Columbus, Eratosthenes, Marco Polo, Queen Isabel of Castile, Vasco da Gama, Amerigo Vespucci, Ferdinand...
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Bartolomeu Dias - Wikipedia  Bartolomeu Dias a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer. He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, reaching the Indian ... Bartolomeu Dias originally named the Cape of Good Hope the "Cape of ... a huge storm off the cape and were lost, including Dias', on 29 May 1500.
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Portuguese discoveries - Wikipedia  Portuguese discoveries (Portuguese: Descobrimentos portugueses) are the numerous ... In 1297 king Denis of Portugal took personal interest in the development of ... ships and crews, with the goal of defending the country against Muslim pirate ... Henry the Navigator took the lead role in encouraging Portuguese maritime...
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Christopher Columbus - Biography in Context - Gale  They traveled by ship to the Spanish port of Palos de la Frontera near the Portuguese border. ... He met a young peasant woman named Beatriz Enriquez who became his ... In April 1492 Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain signed an ... three ships: the Santa Maria with himself as captain and Juan de la Cosa (who...
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Vasco da Gama - Wikipedia  Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. His initial voyage to India (14971499) was the first to link Europe and Asia by an ocean route, ... Da Gama's discovery of the sea route to India was significant and opened the way for an age of global...
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Bartolomeu Dias - Wikipedia  Bartolomeu Dias a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer. He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, reaching the Indian ... Dias' ship So Cristvo was piloted by Pro de Alenquer. ... It was only on the return voyage that he actually discovered the Cape of Good Hope,...
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Cabral Discovers Brazil | History Today  Richard Cavendish explains how a fleet led by Pedro lvares Cabral reached ... In the following year, King Manuel I sent a fresh expedition to India, of ... been discovered before long even if Columbus had not sailed the ocean blue in 1492.
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Unique Facts about Oceania: Ferdinand Magellan  Ferdinand Magellan (Spring 1480  April 27, 1521) was a Portuguese sea ... Magellan reached Seville, the main port of Spain, on October 20, 1517, and from there ... Rio de Janeiro, where the weather and the natives were generally friendly. ... on March 16, the island of Homonhon in the Philippines, with 150 crewmen left.
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John II | king of Portugal | Britannica.com  King of Portugal from 1481 to 1495, regarded as one of the greatest ... great nobles and his resumption of the exploration of Africa and the quest for India. ... He also reasserted the beneplacet, requiring papal letters to be submitted to ... Christopher Columbus tried to interest him in his plan to reach India by a western route.