Jacques Cartier.
Indians
Approximately 15000 years ago
The Portuguese started trading Black Africans first and the Spaniards were the first to use them in their colonies in the Americas, down the line others started to use black slaves as well such as the English Dutch and French!So basically the Portuguese and the Spaniards were the culprits.
Marco Polo.
The first explorers from Portugal arrived in Calicut, Kerala in India in 1498 led by the explorer Vasco da Gama in search for new trade routes and the famed Indian spices. It was the first time that someone traveled from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. The trip was authorized by the Portuguese Crown in search for more resources and to consolidate their hold on the Indian ocean trade network.
In Calicut, today called Kozhikode, on the south-west coast of India.
Ferdinand Magellan was the first explorer to reach Asia by ship. He was a Portuguese explorer who lived from 1480 to 1521 CE.
the Portuguese
the Portuguese
The first recorded European to enter Indian soil was Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer, in 1498. He arrived in Calicut (present-day Kozhikode) on the southwestern coast of India.
The Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral was the first European to voyage to Brazil in 1500.
The first European to reach the Indian ocean was Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama
Portuguese
He was the first Portuguese explorer to reach india.
he was Portuguese i believe
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.