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In this school, people were trained in nagivation, map-making, and science, in order to sail down the west of Africa.
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He got there on Christmas day.
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da Gama sent presents to the 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. -
He was the first european to reach the islands.
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Began with the arrival of Miguel López de Legazpi's expedition.
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It was the first dutch trading post in Indonesia northwest Java.
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Founded to compete with the British and Dutch companies.
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In 1947, Spain and Portugal signed this treaty. This 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.
