Portugal

Coming Soon To a theatre near you! Leif Eriksson-Rapid winds lead him off his route and took him and his ship all the way to the north american coast. Leif and his crew came in on the labrador Peninsula to, what is now, present day Canada. Soon after, the vikings sailed farther south to end up on the island of Newfoundland, and maybe to present day present day New England. When Eriksson landed, he ended up in a coastal area known as Vinland. Leif stayed, however, the vikings left just…

constant conflict between the different powers that were trying to occupy more land, the church, Spain, and Portugal. Through the lens of the film The Mission, directed by Roland Joffé, this conflict illuminates as the Church’s influence becomes threatened by the Portuguese King. This causes the Cardinal’s decision to go against his own peaceful values and opinion henceforth, giving Spain and Portugal the ability to conquer the native’s land. By looking at the common trend of the negative…

A little background of Spain is both Spain and Portugal occupy the Iberian Peninsula. Spain occupies 85% of the Iberian Peninsula. Each group that first settled in Spain left a trademark behind. The periods start from the Iberians, the the Roman, Visigoths and the Moors. The Roman established themselves in the Peninsula roughly in 200 BC for over 600 years but they were not alone in the land there were tribes who were already there and the Romans fought the tribes which took them two…

extent: the entirety of the South American continent, Central America, The Caribbean and even parts of North America (Blue Reader maps 4-7). For most of the colonial period, these areas were dominated by two Atlantic facing European nations, Spain and Portugal. The size and diversity of the…

fado) and professional fado, giving encouragement and advice to performers, supporting struggling fadistas by joining in on the chorus, and by allowing new forms of imagery and style within fado, they enable others to enter into the true soul of Portugal; the soul of fado (110). Therefore, the Portuguese identity has dual significance in both its intellectual and soulful…

attack by Malays. During the subsequent fighting he saved the life of a Portuguese explorer, his close friend Francisco Serrão. (Serrão, possibly a relative of Magellan’s, had sailed with Magellan to India in 1505.) Magellan attempted to return to Portugal afterward but was unsuccessful. At a council held at Cochin on October 10, 1510, to decide on plans for retaking Goa—which the Portuguese had captured earlier in the year but then lost—he advised against taking large ships at that season.…

Maritime Exploration in the 1400s 1000 CE the vikings made the risky journey to Greenland and North America from Scandinavia and only until they made technological advance did they feel comfortable dominating the land. Muslims traders made early connections with Southern and Eastern Asia and Marco Polo’s experience even preceded theirs’. The spice lands were known for their international contributions and China, India and Africa were known for giving Europe most of their luxury items. The old…

Portugal is the country that decriminalized drugs in their country. We all want to know what led Portugal to start the decriminalization of drugs, according to the article Portugal’s Experiment “ it all started during the mid-twentieth century, when Portugal experienced fifty years of military dictatorship, and when leftist democratic was reestablished in 1974”. Portugal is and still is the only European Union state explicitly to decriminalize drug usage. Portugal’s decriminalization came about…

Shackleton Case Study: Was He a Successful Leader? Summary In late 1914, the ship Endurance, left the port of South Georgia Island for their final stretch to their South Pole destination. Sir Ernest Shackleton, their illustrious leader, had been at sea before and had even attempted this perilous journey prior to this sailing. Shackleton was starting this journey with renewed vigor as he could sense this would be one of his last chances to accomplish his life-long goal of traversing the southern…

In this essay, I will be summarizing James Fujitani's argument regarding the rejection of the Ming with the Portuguese effort to establish diplomatic relations in 1519. Back in 1517, the Portuguese fleet arrived off the coast of Guangzhou. This was a great moment of symbolic importance to the Portuguese, with making the first official contact between the East Asia and Europe of the early modern period. However, just a few years later, in 1521, these relations broke down by many false rumor…