Portugal

In 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sailed the Atlantic Ocean for the country of Spain. This was in the Age of Exploration, in which countries (primarily Spain and Portugal) were fighting to explore everything in the world possible. During this line, there was a line of demarcation to define exactly where each country could and could not explore. When Columbus left, he intended to find the country of Indians, but instead, he found a whole new continent of North America. When he landed…

began as a tropical depression, first spotted on January 14. Within two hours, it was upgraded to a hurricane, with wind speeds of 85 miles per hour. The location too was highly unusual, some 500 miles south of the Azores Islands off the coast of Portugal. Hurricanes normally don't form this far north and east (north of 30 degrees North latitude, east of 30 degrees West longitude) in the Atlantic Ocean.…

after his father’s ship before him. He first set sail in 1826, and his ship was on it’s way to New England from the Americas. It would be a six month trip, so him and his crew of fifteen men prepared themselves. Legend says that when they were near Portugal when the ship was said to have ran into a rock protruding out of the sea. It split directly in half and all of the crew…

Vasco de Gama Born: 1460 Died: 1524 Known for: Discovering an all-water route from Europe to India. De Gama sailed from Lisbon to reach India and created open sea route from Europe to the east. Chosen by King Manuel to search for the route from Western Europe to the East. At this time, Muslims held a monopoly of the trade routes from India and other Eastern nations. De Gama left at July 1497 with four vessels he was finally able to round the Cape of Good Hope at Africa's Southern tip in late…

President James Monroe believes the system of Europe and the Western Hemisphere are different within the ways both get involved in the relations between the other parts of the world. Stated “Spain and Portugal began to improve the ways the people who live there to strive for success and improvement. Therefore us citizens of the United States like having “liberty and happiness”. That being said they didn’t want to get involved with the European war. Only when the United States feels attacked or…

Prior to the large maritime expansion of slave labor by Europe, slavery and slave trading existed for a long time. The idea of slavery to them was surrounded by the idea of the continuing conflict between the Muslim and Christian religion, where an abundance of the slaves were created or enslaved as prisoners of war. As Eickelmann stated in her brief excerpt about the transatlantic slave trade, “What established the case for using Africans as slaves was not merely the availability of Africans…

personalities and lives to drugs. Lastly, he suggests that legalization would give the government, and therefore the people, a fat receipt to pay for. There is a country, Portugal, that decriminalized the use of drugs. Bennett states that “with legalization, drug use will go up, way up” (par 12) in America. However, Portugal found that when drugs became legalized, the opposite happened.…

At the end of the 15th century, absolute monarchs ruled in almost every country in Europe. The monarchs of Spain, France, Portugal, England, the Holy Roman Empire, and other areas centralized the power in their countries by raising large armies, controlling the people of their countries through harsh laws and military force, and tied their rule to God through the theory of divine right. Absolute monarchs and the officials working in their governments followed an economic policy that we now…

Many well known civilizations of Ancient Africa were Carthage, the Kingdom of Ghana, and the Mali Empire. Africa relied on trade for money. They traded rare jewels like diamonds, sapphires, and blue garnets. They traded with Portugal for objects that were hard to come across in Africa like luxurious animal skins, ivory, and ebony. Their economy had many incidents where it began to fail due to heavy taxes on gold and salt. In times of low income they'd rely on cash crops for income. When many of…

in Exeter, England, where she earned a French and Classics degree. She moved to London where she switched jobs often. She began writing the Harry Potter series when she received the idea of the plot during a delayed train ride. Rowling moved to Portugal and taught English as a foreign language. She married Jorge Arantes in October 1992 and gave birth to their daughter, Jessica, in 1993. Rowling and Arantes divorced in 1995, and Rowling moved back to the UK. She completed writing Harry Potter…