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Prince Henry started a school that taught the skills of map making and sailing . It is somewhere in Portugal though the precise location is unknown .
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Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias became the first European mariner to round the southern tip of Africa, opening the way for a sea route from Europe to Asia.
Dias' ships rounded the perilous Cape of Good Hope and then sailed around Africa's southernmost point, -
Christopher Columbus made landfall on a small island in the Caribbean. His historic voyage ignited the age of exploration and cross-Atlantic expansion by European settlers
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divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands (off the west coast of Africa).
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Vasco da Gama arrived to the port of Calicut. The King of Calicut, the Samudiri (Zamorin) welcomed Vasco and his troops. Vasco, to show his gratitude, gave Zamorin four cloaks of scarlet cloth, six hats, four branches of corals, twelve almasares, a box with seven brass vessels, a chest of sugar, two barrels of oil and a cask of honey in exhange to set up a merchant port. He was denied.
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Magellan's expedition became the first expedition to sail from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific Ocean
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Spanish colonization and settlement began with the arrival of Miguel López de Legazpi's expedition; who established the first permanent settlement of San Miguel on the island of Cebu
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The Dutch recognized potential in the East Indies spice trade so the Dutch Government combined the competing merchant companies into the United East India Company.
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was a commercial enterprise, founded in 1664 to compete with the British and Dutch East India companies in colonial India.
