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Prince Henry the Navigator was actually never a navigator. He was a Portuguese man who set up the first school of navigation for sailors.
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The Ming Dynasty in China stopped funding their trade explorations after Zheng He died. They did, however, allow other countried to trade within them with strict regulations.
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Italians and Muslims charge high prices for trade routes. Europeans avoid them by going through the sea, instead.
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Christopher Columbus is probably the most famous explorer ever. However, most people dont know the background that goes along with him. Columbus was an Italian man who sailed for Portugal. When he made his famous expedition, he was actually trying to get to Southeast Asia for trading btu wound up landing in America.
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The Line of Demarcation was a line that Pope Alexander VI made to divide the world. One side was Portuguese's teritory. The other side was the Spain's territory.
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Pedro Alvarez Cabral was born in Portugal and sailed for Portugal. On one of his expeditions, he reach what is now modern Brazil and claimed it for Portugal.
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Vasco de Gama was born in Purtugal and sail for them too. He is most famous for being the first person to discover India.
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Alfonso was a man who sailed for Portugal and helped spread the trade routes to Southeast Asia. In order to do so, he used force to conquer the lands.
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Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese man who sailed for Spain. He is most famous for his expediton in 1522 where he circumnavigate the world.
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Spain's main objective was to spread Catholicism throughout the world. When they were making their trading empire, they conquered the Philippines and taught them about Catholicism.
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Ferdinand Magellan was the first perfon to sail around the world.
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The portuguese sailed to Japan and traded with them. they taught them how to make firearms.
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A year long trip of voyages by the Dutch. They wind up finding lots of wealth and spices.
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When the Dutch entered India, they made a trading empire.
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After learning about what the Spanish did to the Philippenes, the Japanese ban trading with Westerners.