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Portugal's crown during the reign of Joao …
Years: 1396 - 1539
Portugal's crown during the reign of Joao II once again takes an active role in the search for a sea route to India.
In 1481 the king orders a fort constructed at Mina de Ouro to protect this potential source of wealth.
Diogo Cão sails farther down the African coast in the period 1482-84.
A new expedition in 1487 led by Bartolomeu Dias sails south beyond the tip of Africa and, after having lost sight of land for a month, turns north and makes landfall on a northeast-running coastline, which is named Terra dos Vaqueiros after the native herders and cows that are seen on shore.
Dias has rounded the Cape of Good Hope without seeing it and has proven that the Atlantic connects to the Indian Ocean.
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Years: 1396 - 1539
Locations
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- Khoikhoi
- Islam
- Portuguese people
- Genoa, (Most Serene) Republic of
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Italians (Latins)
- Venice, (Most Serene) Republic of
- Marinid Dynasty (Sultanate of Morocco)
- Order of Christ (Portugal)
- Ottoman Empire
- Portugal, Avizan (Joannine) Kingdom of
- Turkish people
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