Early Life Why on earth would a person sail around the southernmost tip of Africa without modern sailing technology such as GPS? Bartolomeu Dias was such a person to accomplish his great voyage around the Cape of Good Hope. He was born in Portugal around 1450 and was a Portuguese navigator and explorer and was known as the first European who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa and reached the Cape of Good Hope. Bartolomeu Dias’ achievement had ultimately led to expansion of trade
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Goa. Unfortunately his success was also met by a bit of defeat too. The goods that da Gama brought with him where not in demand in India at all. The native peoples of the area were hostile to these outsiders and thus da Gama was forced to return to Portugal with his stores of goods still unsold. The Portuguese Gain Goa It would not be until the year 1510 that the Portuguese would first land in Goa. Alfonso Albuquerque would be the first Portuguese captain to land in Goa‚ but his arrival was staunchly
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The expansion of Western Europe started with the Iberian phase. Spain and Portugal‚ the two countries of the Iberian Peninsula‚ had a short-lived yet important role in European expansion. European expansion then turned to Western Europe. Western Europe consists of the Dutch‚ French‚ and British. While Western Europe was exploring new worlds overseas‚ the Russians were expanding westward across all of Eurasia. Religion played a major role in expansion for both the Portuguese and the Spanish due
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geographic location was ideal for the natural development of a sea fearing tradition. Their position on the west coast of the Iberian Peninsula contributed to them becoming the preeminent European pioneer in maritime exploration of the African coast. Portugal benefited from a relatively stable monarchy whose kings encouraged maritime trade and shipping ventures. The
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and other inferred ideas based on his Christian teachings4 that he came up with his idea of taking this route by way of the west to reach the east/India‚ an idea which took twelve (12) years to reach its full potential. He first took this idea to Portugal then England‚ France and Spain all of which initially turned him down. It was after the Reconquista5 between Spain and the Portuguese Moors which ended when Garanada the last Muslim strong hold was captured by Spain and after which the Edit of Expulsion
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Henry the Navigator in the Age of Exploration Prince Henry was born in Portugal in 1394. He was the third son of King John I. In the year of 1415‚ Henry helped his two brothers attack the port of Ceuta in Morocco. This inspired him to explore the unknown of South Africa. In the Algarve‚ Henry constructed his own school of navigation on a promontory called Sagres that juts out into the sea between Cape St. Vincent and Lagos bay. Prince Henry set up this school‚ so that there would be a place where
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Universidade Católica Portuguesa Business experience: Member of the Board of GALP ENERGIA‚ SA - today Member of the Board of BRISA – CR‚ SA - today Chairman of the Supervisory Board of CAIXA Banco de Investimento - today Founder and Coordinator of Portugal Economy Probe (www.peprobe.com) - today Chairman and CEO of the Portuguese Stock Exchange (Euronext Lisbon) – 2005-2010 Member of the Managing Board Euronext‚ N.V. (Stock Exchanges of Amsterdam‚ Brussels‚ Lisbon‚ and Paris) Member of the Management
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Europe and China. These Asian peoples would not let Europeans pass through their territory. For this reason‚ Europeans set out to find an ocean passage to the East‚ at a time when very few seamen had ever sailed out of sight of land. Spain and Portugal were nations that looked out on the Atlantic Ocean‚ not inward to the smaller and more peaceful Mediterranean Sea. These nations were ready to venture into the Atlantic and find a route to the East at the same time that new ways of building ships
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Mediterranian sea route. So the Europeans had to discover a new sea route to Eastern Countries. Dicoveries of 15th and the 16th centuries paved the way ior the Europeans to have trade relations with the Eastern countries‚ particularly with lndia. Portugal and Spain encouraged their navigators to undertake sea voyages. Coming of the Portuguese: The Portugltese were first among the Europeans to discover a sea route to India. The king of Portrgal‚ Henry- the navigator encouraged the sailors to undertake
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JOSE RIZAL The movie tells the life story of Jose Rizal‚ the national hero of the Philippines. It covers his life from his childhood to his execution at the hands of the Spanish forces occupying the Philippines in the late 19th century. We are also thrown into the world of Rizal’s novels. So we get a glimpse of how he viewed Filipino society under the Spanish heal. One note‚ this movie is not for the faint of heart. There are graphic depictions of violence and even torture. The opening few
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