A nossa História

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Starting in the 1430's, *Prince Henry the Navigator* played a crucial role in encouraging early Portuguese exploration of West Africa and beyond
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João Gonçalves Zarco (1390-1467)  reached Porto Santo in 1419, and Madeira in 1420
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Nuno Tristão, another of the earliest of these explorers, began exploring the West African coast in 1441, spent time in Guinea, and was killed during a slave-capturing raid in 1446
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In 1488, Bartholomew Diaz became the first European since ancient times to sail around the Cape of Good Hope
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Pedro Álvares Cabral (c.1467-c.1520), da Gama's contemporary, discovered the sea route to Brazil in 1500
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Meantime, Christopher Colombus, though not Portuguese, was engaged in his own visionary version of the same kind of quest
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And finally, with Magellan, the Portuguese circumnavigated the globe
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The ships-- and the astrolabes-- that made it all possible
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