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Which route to Asia was better the Spanish journey west or the Portuguese journey around Africa and how would you defend your answer?
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What developed as a result of the Portuguese expeditions around Africa?
The Portuguese seaborne empire
Which continent did the portuguese believe they could sail around the reach the east indies?
Africa
What did Spanish and Portuguese Christians unite in the 1400s?
Spanish and Portuguese Christians united in the 1400s to spread protestant Christianity around the world.
Country that controlled the trade route around Africa to the indies?
No single country controlled it but the Portuguese were the first to make it around the Africa. So they had "control" for a while but the Dutch, British, and Spanish all Tried to get into it with the Dutch being the most successful.
What was the goal of the Portuguese?
They traveled around Africa and toward Inda.
Who is not one of the three major spanish explorers Da GamaPizarroBalboa or Coronado?
Vasca da Gama was Portuguese, I believe, and was the first European to sail around the tip of Africa.
What country sponsored the explorer bartolomeo dias?
Bartolomeu Dias, a Portuguese explorer, was sponsored by Portugal when he embarked on his journey to find a sea route to India by sailing around the southern tip of Africa.
What was the goal of the Portuguese explorations?
They traveled around Africa and toward Inda.
The Portuguese explorers began the age sailing down and around the coast of which continent?
The Portuguese explorers began sailing around the coast of Africa
What does the name vasco mean?
Gender: Masculine Usage: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian Pronounced: BAHS-ko (Spanish) [key] From the medieval Spanish name Velasco, which came from the Spanish surname Velázquez, which possibly meant "crow" in Basque. A famous bearer was the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, the first person to sail from Europe around Africa to India.
How are portuguese explorers different from spanish explorers?
The Portugese went around Africa, where the Spanish hired Columbus, whose brilliant idea was to sail straight across the Atlantic, where they ran into America.
What Portuguese explorer who was the first to sail around the tip of Africa?
Bartolomeu Dias. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean.
