Lisbon is located at 37 degrees North, 8 degrees West. The following explorers started their voyages here:
1. Bartolomeu Dias
2. Vasco da Gama
3. Pedro Alvares Cabral
4. Amerigo Vespucci
In the 1400's they knew the Earth was round, and that you could only sail a ship so far (about 3000 miles) before you ran out of water, food; so they circumnavigated the planet in 2000 mile jumps headed for China/ Japan.
The most important Portuguese explorations of the 1400s were on the coast of Africa, from there across the coast of South Asia to India, and across the Atlantic Ocean to Brazil.
Because of the renaissance and Marco polos book
Along the African coastline.
Its Atlantic ports were not under the control of the Moors.
the process of modern exploration and european colonization of the americans
Portugal began to establish trading posts in Africa in the early 1400s.
because •In some cases some countries were getting over populated and in other cases there were theories in which explorers wanted to prove that they were true.
In the ancient times the first who explored the world and colonized were the Greeks In the Renaissance the first nation was Spain [1492 - Christopher Columbus], Portugal [1521 - Ferdinand Mangellan] followed by the Duch, the British and the French.
Its Atlantic ports were not under the control of the Moors.
1350-1600
germany
It started in the 1600's with Portugal and Spain as the leaders of exploration
There are only two European countries which start with the letter 'P' and they are Poland and Portugal. However neither of their capital cities (Warsaw and Lisbon) begin with the letter 'P.'
All European countries that begin with A: Albania Andorra Armenia Azerbaijan
· Hungary
Some time during the Stone Age
the process of modern exploration and european colonization of the americans
What happened as a result of European exploration of north America's east coast? it lead Europeans to begin colonies on the coast.
Albania, Andorra and Austria.
Two countries beginning with the letter L are members of the European Union. The countries are Lithuania and Luxembourg.