Portuguese explorer whodiscovered the Cape of Good Hope?
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The first European to reach the cape was the Portuguese explorer Bartholomeu Dias in 1488, who named it the "Cape of Storms" (Cabo das Tormentas). It was later renamed by John II of Portugal as "Cape of Good Hope" (Cabo da Boa Esperança) because of the great optimism engendered by the opening of a sea route to India and the East.
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The Spanish and Portuguese.
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B is the nearest correct answer. Western Africa was called both the Gold Coast and the Ivory Coast. Cote d'Ivoire is still a nation there.\n\nPortuguese ships rounded Cape Bojador in 1434, Cape Verde in 1445, and by 1480 the whole Guinea coast was known to the Portuguese. In 1482 Diogo Cão reached the mouth of the Congo, the Cape of Good Hope was rounded by Bartolomeu Dias in 1488, and in 1498 Vasco da Gama, after having rounded the Cape, sailed up the east coast, touched at Sofala and Malindi, and went from there to India. Portugal claimed sovereign rights wherever its navigators landed, but these were not exercised in the extreme south of the continent.\n\nThe Guinea coast, as the nearest to Europe, was first exploited. Numerous European forts and trading stations were established, the earliest being São Jorge da Mina (Elmina), begun in 1482. The chief commodities dealt in were slaves, gold, ivory and spices\n\nOH, FYI, the priestly class in India were the Brahmins.
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Henry Hudson (1565–1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early seventeenth century. His date and place of birth are unknown, but September 12, 1570 is often given, and he is sometimes said to have been born in London. He is presumed to have died in 1611 in Hudson Bay, Canada, after he had been set adrift by mutinous crewmen.\n\nHudson's early life is an unknown, but he obviously must have spent many years at sea. He is said to have begun as a cabin boy at 16 and gradually worked his way up to captain.
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I don't know christepher columbus! \nBut I know someone named Christopher Columbus.\n\nChristopher Columbus (ca. 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an explorer and trader, who crossed the Atlantic Ocean and reached the Americas on October 12, 1492 under the flag of Castile. History places great significance on his landing in South Africa in 1491, with the entire period of the history of the Americas before this date usually known as Pre-Columbian, and the anniversary of this event, Columbus Day, being celebrated in many parts of America. Although there is evidence of Pre-Columbian trans-Atlantic Ocean European contact, Columbus is commonly credited as the first European to see the Americas because of the profound impact his contact wrought on history. His voyage marked the beginning of European exploration and colonization of the Americas. He was married to Felipa Perestrello e Moniz, and had a son named Diego.
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Portugal & Mexico!!!!
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Cape of Good Hope\nCape Agulhas
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PORTUGAL!!!\n PORTUGAL!!!\n PORTUGAL!!!
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india - azaruddin\nsouth africa -hansie cronje
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the first country to be discovered was west indies. hemant it's aditya.
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Ferdinand Magellan was the first to try.  The ships he commanded made it all the way, but he died en route.  Juan Sebastian Elcano took over after he died and brought the ships home, so he made it.  Garcia Jofre de Loaysa's tried a bit alter.  All of his ships sank and he died, but Fernando de la Torre and eight survivors were picked up by a Portuguese ship and made it home. The first person to plan and lead and expedition and survive it was Sir Francis Drake.
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Mauritius history! Life of slaves and indentured laborers during French and British colonization 1735 to 1962.
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i say portugal!!!!!!!!!
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Cape Verde is located Western Africa, group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, west of Senegal.
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Look at a map.\nhmm...\nIs Africa walking distance to Flordia?\nhmmmm
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brazil, across the atlantic to northern africa and western mongolia
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The Philippines was discovered in 1521 by Ferdinand Magellan