Bartolomeu Dias

1) While at my observation this past week I learned three valuable lessons. The first lesson that I learned was the importance of structure in a classroom. The teacher for a U.S. history class had planned out a lesson that was both interesting and out of the ordinary. However, with this lesson plan the structure of the class had to be changed. Typically the class was structured with the same type of hook every class period. This hook was what the teacher calls “fun facts”, which are interesting…

routes and continents were identified, including the Americas. Explorers conducted their expeditions to discover new parts of the planet, and maps were created as new land was found. Bartolomeu Dias, a Portuguese explorer born in circa 1450 into a royal noble family.1 Not much else was known about Dias, until 1487 when Dias’…

Advancement in Society-Discovery and Enlightenment What brought about the changes in our world that we see today? How did we change from people whose main goal in life was just trying to survive, into people who wanted to gain a better understanding of the world they lived in? Well, it all started in the 1400s when the European nations began to explore the world. This event was known as The Age of Exploration and Discovery, it marked the beginning of human advancement. Another major event coming…

The age of exploration in Europe was fueled by many different factors. The main desire was for new sources of wealth. Europe was hoping to make money trading spices and other luxury goods from Asia, and could only do this by overseas exploration. Another goal was to spread Christianity. The Crusades had left a feeling of hostility between the Christians and the Muslims. The Christians believed they needed to keep fighting the Muslims and convert non-Christians from all over the world. A final…

Why explore the profound secrets of the earth when everyone believes circumnavigating it is illogical? During the Age of Exploration, people began doing what seemed impossible: expanding into the rest of the world between the 1400s and 1800s. Expeditions across the world were very long and expensive, not to mention very dangerous. Europeans risked perilous ocean voyages to discover new sea routes in order to expand and establish powerful trading empires. Many sailors died on the way and some…

explorer. He is the first European to land on the Americas. He led a crew of 35 men on a journey to America at around the year 1000. Historically important due to the fact that it was he who got to the Americas first, he discovered it. Bartolomeu Dias Bartolomeu Dias, a portuguese explorer who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488 opening the way for a sea route from Europe to Asia which increased trade with India and other parts of Asia.. first European to do so. He is the one…

The reason for this sudden urge to look for a trade route again was because news had spread that the voyage of Bartolomeu Dias had found that the Atlantic and Indian Oceans were directly connected. Da Gama was the navigator chosen to lead the fleet by Dom Manuel. It was on July 8 of 1497 that Da Gama had set sail with a fleet of 4 ships and a crew of around 165 men to…

latitude. In 1420, Portuguese fleets began probing southward along the western coast of Africa where they discovered gold. After hearing several reports of a sea route to India, Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1488, hoping to find the route to Asia. Despite his disappointment in not finding the route, Dias became the first Portuguese and European to ever sail around the tip of south Africa. He opened the doors to seafaring trade in India. Following Dias’s route, Vasco da Gama…

The issue of slavery in Africa started with the Portuguese expedition of West Africa in the fifteenth century. Prince Henry sponsored the Portuguese as their governor and was later named Prince Henry the Navigator after his establishment of a school for navigators at Sagres, Portugal in 1419. The purpose of this school was to train explorers in navigation, map-making, and science so they could be prepared to travel along the west coast of Africa. The Portuguese, who eventually became the one…

Two Portuguese explorers, Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco da Gama, traveled around the Cape of Good Hope to create new trade routes. Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, was able to get a trip funded by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. He attempted to travel to India, but reached Hispaniola…