Cape of Good Hope

life and expedition of Bartolomeu Diaz, one of the most important people during the Age of Exploration, and the leader of the expedition that would round the southern tip of Africa, opening up trade to India and Asia, and cutting out the middleman for trade. Bartolomeu Dias was born in 1450 to a wealthy Portuguese family. Not much is known about Bartolomeu Dias’s early life, except that he received a very good education. There is a theory that he is a descendent of Prince Henry the Navigator’s pilots, but there is not facts to prove this. One of the only things know about his early life is that he was in charge of some of king João II’s warehouses. He also made a single voyage on some type of warship. In 1486 the king of Portugal gave Bartolomeu Dias the job of leading an expedition to find a sea route to India. He was probably in his mid 30s when the king asked him to go on his expedition. The king of…

Bartolomeu Dias was a Portuguese navigator who discovered the Cape of Good Hope in 1488 this showed Europeans there was a good route to India around the place with many storms around the southern tip of Africa. He also discovered the European the south-east trade wind to the west and south of South Africa, then establishing the wind system for those who chose to sail after him. He was born in 1450 in Algarve Kingdom of Portugal he died 29 May 1500 at the age of 50 years he was part of the…

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interpreting Cape Horn as an analogue for the physical and spiritual life of the whalers, and how this…

Imagine being the first explorer of your people to sail successfully around a piece of land and find a new trade route, sounds amazing right? Well that is what Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias did. He even had the chance to name the cape he sailed around. Bartolomeu Dias was born in Lisbon Portugal in the year of 1450 (“The Ages of Exploration”). He was appointed to sail to Africa to find a Christian King, but his trip was not all sunshine and smiles, he did face challenges like any normal…

It took Bartolomeu from Portugal all the way to the southern tip of Africa. He named landscapes along the way, like the Cape of Good Hope. It was originally the Cape of Storms, or Cabo Tormentoso, but they wanted to encourage trade, not scare everyone away. So therefore, the name was changed. After Bartolomeu came home from his first voyage, he soon set out on another one. Ironically enough, his ship, as well as three others, ended up sinking in the Cape of Hope on May 29th. He drowned there as…

The Dutch formed the VOC which was the Dutch East India Company and the slaves were taken as ‘property’ of this company. The Dutch company came about after the Dutch colonized the Cape. The Khoikhoi and the San people were the first Bushmen and herdsmen to arrive in the Cape. The Dutch built refreshment stops where the sailors could have fresh food and water on their way to other countries to trade. They started to take over the KhoiKhoi and the San’s land and even took their livestock. They…

Through this time there has been many important factors, the privateers being one they. They were the ones that defeated the colonies. They had their own ranks, uniforms, and tactics and were huge. The Dutch East Corporation had the fourth largest navy on the earth. Another important factor were the trade winds at this period of time. Trade winds were safe predictable winds that boats used to travel. The two major trade winds were the middle passage and Cape of Good Hope. The middle passage was…

Exploration in the 1400s Science and technology improved exploration in the fourteen hundreds. One type of ship used by explorers Christopher Columbus, Bartholomew Dias, and Vasco de Gama was the caravel, invented in the thirteenth century. The caravel was originally used as a fishing boat and it used lateen sails. Lateen sails are triangular sails, which allowed explorers to use the wind to their advantage when sailing. Caravels had a tilted bow and two masts. These masts were called the…