Pedro Álvares Cabral To Africa

Pedro Álvares Cabral was not just an amazing explorer, but the founder of brazil too. When he set foot on the “new land” he named the new land the Inland of the true cross but later the named changed to Brazil due to dyewood found in paulo-Brazil. Before all that, another explorer Vasco Da Gama was tired after he did an returned from another expedition to India so instead ,Pedro Álvares Cabral took the expedition to the “new” expedition . The King wanted to take the advantage of the new trade routes that opened up so he sent 13 ships and Pedro Álvares Cabral to Africa. The expedition to Africa sounds boring but really, it has some action pack to it. the biography of Pedro Álvares Cabral. To begin with, he was born into a wealthy family …show more content…
When da Gama returned to Portugal in September 1498, the Portuguese king decided to send out one more expedition immediately to India to take advantage of the new trading opportunities that had been opened up when da Gama returned. After all, da Gama would have been the logical choice to lead such an expedition but apparently, he still needed to recover from his last voyage and perhaps, his suggestion was Cabral to take his place to lead. Cabral left the city Lisbon on March 9, 1500 with a fleet of 13 ships, much larger than da Gama fleet. As a result, the 13 ships accidently reached Brazil by mistake, rather than India for …show more content…
Maybe, another explorer would found Brazil and the name Brazil, would probably be different. On the way back, Pedro Álvares Cabral got struck by bad luck. When the reached India they got prepared for the amazing trade they hoped for, they rest, prepared ,and got on the ships. The merchants of Calicut were not pleased at all for the arrival of the Portuguese, because the new trade route threatened the monopoly they had for spices with the trade with Europe. After the Portuguese built a trading post on land, the trade post was attacked and about 50 men were killed. After the attack on the trading post,Cabral then seized 10 Arab ships and bombarded the city with his guns. Since he hadn’t gotten traded he, he sailed south to the port of Cochin (present-day Kozhikode) to trade there. Cochin was an enemy of Calicut, so the people were very happy to receive the Portuguese traders since they, well bombarded the city. They were able to fill up their ships with precious merchandise and left the town early and happy in January 1501. Cabral was able to keep on going knowing that he lost some of his own people and the results was a great trade. Cabral managed to find Brazil and have a successful trade