King Manuel Of Portugal: Cabral Left Portugal

1450, Portuguese mariners overcame those obstacles by developing the caravel, and discovering a new route.

Pedro Álvares Cabral was a very important Portuguese explorer. He was the first to explore much of Northeastern South America and claimed it for Portugal. He was ultimately looking for a route to India. He is important because he discovered Brazil introduced the Portuguese culture to it. Brazil is even still a Portuguese speaking country. He later died in

Africa, and Vasco and Gama got to India, Spain united as a country to outdo Portugal.

The map on Document A shows you the route Cabeza took to reach freedom. He wouldn’t have been able to do it with his wit alone, luck played a key role in survival. Fall of 1532, Cabeza mets the other survivors again and waits for the right moment to escape the indian stronghold. With a 21 month journey ahead of them, they lucked out with the nice Native Americans down south(Cabeza de Vaca: How did He Survive).

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel America without anything but three partners and your feet? Well that's what Cabezas did and he went through extremely tough tasks. In 1527 five Spanish ships left a port in Seville He escaped from Indians, he was stranded on Galveston island after being in a raft with his fellow castaways, and after that, escaping Indians again and walking to Mexico. Most people would ask how Cabeza survived, and if they did I would tell them that Cabeza De Vaca survived because of his wilderness skills, success as a healer, and his respect for Indians.

John Cabot, born in about c 1450, was an explorer from venice, Italy. In 1496, Cabot was given a grant to sail to what they intended on discovering a trade route to Asia, coming from the west. However, he and his crew ended up sailing along Newfoundland and Labrador. Although he did not succeed in finding a trade route, he did make a note that the waters were filled with Cod. His trip to what would be Canada was the second time it ever occurred, leaving the land to be claimed by

Ryan McGillicuddy Mr. McKerr December 5 2017 Spain: 1.) August 3, 1492 – March 1493: Columbus Heads for India... D: He set sail from Palos, Spain, with three small ships; the Santa Maria , the Pinta , and the Nina . He believed he was sailing towards India and China to gain a spice trade however he ended up “Discovering” the new world and its Native American inhabitants.

Portugal was one of the, if not the only, technological and economic geniuses of the fifteenth century. As a result of their genius, Portugal was able to build one of the first caravels and sail around the coast of Africa in an attempt to find a sea route to India. As a result of this attempt,

On June 17, 1527, Cabeza de Vaca set sail on the order to conquer and govern the lands from the Rio Grande to the cape of Florida. However, during his journey he encountered much devastation such as the wrecking of his ship which resulted in his separation from the majority of his Christian companions. Praying to God after every ordeal, Cabeza routinely sought after his Christian religion to guide him through his unexpected journey. While traveling through the interior of America, he also encountered many native tribes which inhabited the land. While most of the Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century spread their religion through warlike ways and rearranged societies

During the same time as Portugal’s expansion Spain was also seeking a passage from Spain across the Atlantic to Asia. A man from

John Cabot (also known as Giovanni Caboto) was born in 1450 in Genoa, and later moved to Venice in 1461. John Cabot became a Venetian citizen in 1476. In 1496 King Henry VII issued letters to Cabot regarding a voyage to Asia for goods available in the English market. Instead of travelling west, like

- Because Spain and Portugal were rivals, they were always trying to out beat each other. Since the Portuguese set up trading posts in Africa first, other European countries started and later on Spain set up posts too. Because the Portuguese didn’t like taking water routes, it took them longer to get to India through land to get spices and jewels. While this was happening, the Spanish people became unified and seeing that they were now stronger, planned to outstrip their rivals of the Indian

Portugal began to enact upon expanding their territory and discovering new land in the late 1400s; they set out upon different expeditions under the control of Henry the Navigator, although, they did not travel very far since they were afraid the earth was flat and they may fall off. When they realized Columbus discovered America for Spain, in 1492, Portugal decided to restart their expeditions in order to drive away Spanish competition. This sparked the chain of expansion among the world in the 16th and 17th centuries.

While Vasco de Gama proved to be the symbol of the early Portuguese Empire because of his achievements and voyage from South Africa to India in 1497-98, Camoes became the symbol of Portuguese identity by making known de Gama’s voyages and the empire in his epic, The Lusiads in 1572. In the Lusiads by Luis Vaz de Camoes, he depicts the Portuguese empire in a poem that narrates the explorer Vasco da Gama and what his voyage underwent through the Cape of Good Hope and into India. He explains Gama’s journey began to build the Portuguese empire by first forming a national identity through a correlation between colonization and new discoveries across the world in the sixteenth century. Creating the Portuguese empire into a national identity was a major impact to other empires that are geographically connected to the Portuguese because of their desire in expanding, which caused hostility by creating a common enemy through military forces that pushed towards territory and religious beliefs. Camoes experienced Gama’s voyage half-a-century later, which made him the first European artist to cross the equator. Through his experiences he illustrates how a regular man that has never been seen of nor heard of can become a common hero because of the Portuguese Empire being a small Empire. Camoes, the national poet of Portugal acknowledges the Portuguese empire in The Lusiads, by describing the identity of Portugal being a group achievement and not one-man’s achievement.

Vasco Da Gama left from Lisbon, Portugal on his first voyage on July 8, 1497 because he wanted to prove that the Atlantic Ocean connected with the Indian Ocean. He had one hundred seventy men and four ships. The journey sailed on November 22 successfully