Pedro Álvares Cabral was a Portuguese explorer that led the second expedition to India. Along the way, his crew had discovered what we now know today as Brazil. The story of how he discovered Brazil is very interesting. It all started when Cabral landed on an unknown island while leading an expedition to India.
Pedro Alvares Cabral was born around 1467 or 1468. He was born in the village of Belmont, Portugal. He was born as a member of a royal Portuguese court of King Manuel I and King John II. By some people, he was called Pero. Cabral’s parents are Fernão Alvares and Isabel de Gouveia. He was sent to serve at the Portuguese court at age 17. He rapidly rose in the esteem of the two monarchs that he served.
During the years that Pedro Alvares Cabral was helping and working with the court, new expeditions occurred that opened up ocean routes between Europe and Asia. In 1488, Bartolomeu Dias had discovered the Cape of Good Hope and in 1498, Vasco da Gama had reached India. In September of 1498, Vasco da Gama returned to Portugal. Meanwhile, King John II wanted to take advantage of
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In June 1494, after Christopher Columbus came back from his expedition, the Treaty of Tordesillas was signed by Spain and Portugal. The discoveries between these two cultures had to be divided so the Treaty of Tordesillas was the tool to make that divisions happen. Although, not only did it divide the discoveries from Spain and the discoveries from Portugal, this treaty also divided the whole world in half. What happened was that Spain took the Americas and the Portuguese took over Africa and Asia. The dividing line was actually set at a point that was 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands, the new islands discovered by Vasco de Gama right before Pedro Alvarez Cabral set sail for
The treaty was negotiated because João II didn’t like all the land the Spanish were getting; Ferdinand and Isabella feared the Portuguese and was busy with the New World. This was different from the “papal line” because this treaty divided the world into 2 hemispheres. The “papal line” was about 350 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands and beyond that discovered
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
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was born in 1490 at Jerez de la Frontera in Andalusia. His parents went by the name Francisco de Vera and Teresa Cabeza de Vaca. “Cabeza de Vaca means ‘head of cow’ and was derived from a peasant ancestor.” (elizabethan-era.org) “By 1528, he was appointed treasurer underneath the explorer Panfilo de Narvaez which reached what is now Tampa Bay, Florida later in the same year.” “By September of that year, all of the members of the expedition except for 60 of de Vaca’s men had died near the shore of present-day Galveston, Texas.” (Biography.com Editors). Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer who was the first historian of Texas, and one of the four survivors of the Narvaez expedition.
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4. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer of the New World. De Vaca was one of four survivors when he went on the Narváez expedition in 1527.
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.
1492 was the year which set the seeds of change in North America. Columbus’ discovery was what prompted nations, like Spain and Portugal, to begin sailing West, instead of East. Shortly after Columbus’ discovery of the Bahamas, Spain and Portugal settled which nation would receive certain parts of the New World with the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494. The Treaty of Tordesillas was proof that nations were taking Columbus’ discoveries
exploration of the northeast coast of South America and claimed it for Portugal. He was
The king of Portugal, John II was not happy with the division. John II, felt that the Portuguese interest in the South Atlantic where being jeopardized. Therefore he negotiated a treaty with Ferdinand and Isabella, 930 miles, known as 270 leagues back in the day, farther to the west. This treaty was known as the Treat of Tordesilla.
In 1494, they approached the one organization that had authority over both rulers to settle their disputes. The Spanish and Portuguese monarchs left the question of ownership over new lands to Pope Alexander VI. The Pope simply drew a line of demarcation [separation] between the Azores, islands off the coast of Europe already discovered by the Portuguese, and the islands discovered
When the Spanish and Portugal had the Treaty of Tordesillas it separated them splitting up the land of which each empire could conquer. The Spanish had a very large part of the Americas while the Portuguese only had the area of Brazil. The Spanish began a conquest of Mexico they fought with the Tlateloclan warriors and the Spaniards entirely defeated them so they could fully take over their land (Tlatelolcan Elder, 564). While Spain took control over the western part of the Americas Portugal was fighting for the land they were given in the east, Brazil. When Pedro Alvares Cabral first went to the land of Brazil he was very unimpressed with the people and the land there he went back to the King of Portugal, Manoel, and reported this to him, he described how the people looked and acted to Manoel. (Encounter in Brazil, 571). Through these primary sources you can see the Portuguese and Spanish are taking control of what is theirs. This led to conflicts between the stronger and weaker empires as they tried to gain more land to become wealthy. Many empires were also trying to gain kingdoms in Africa to keep the slave trade alive so slaves could keep producing good in the Americas. There were other conflicts between empires and it impacted the empires of the globe of how powerful and they would
Vasco Da Gama By: Dracen Poovey Vasco Da Gama was a portuguese explorer who discovered a new trade route to India which was a very significant discovery to Europe. In this essay I will tell you a story about a man named Vasco Da Gama. Vasco Da Gama was a portuguese explorer in in the late 1400’s.
On the other side he discovered a vast body of water that he named "South
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