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Well known explorers:
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Bartolomeu Dias (1450-1500) --> surroundes Cape of Good Hope; Vasco da Gama 1469-1525) --> India; Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) --> America; Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) --> Magellanstreet
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Who was one of the great enablers of European worldwide explorations?
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Henry the Navigator (1394-1460).
Prince Henry the Navigator was the third child of King John I of Portugal, the founder of the Aviz dynasty, and of Philippa of Lancaster, the daughter of John of Gaunt |
