HUMA 1860 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh Gurus, Guru Arjan
31 Mar 2017
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Portugal began exploring the coast of africa under prince henry the navigator (1394-1460). In 1419, prince henry founded a school for navigators. In 1441 portuguese ships reached the senegal river and brought home a cargo of black africans who were sold as slaves. In 1487, bartolomeu dias rounded the cape of good hope. In 1498 a portuguese fleet under the command of vasco de gama arrived off the port of calicut on the southwestern coast of india. While the portuguese reached the spice islands via the indian ocean after sailing around the southern tip of africa, the spanish attempted to reach the same destination by sailing westward across the atlantic. In 1494 the treaty of tordesillas assigned the eastern route around the cape of. Good hope to the portuguese and the route across the atlantic to the spanish. Hence the spanish were particularly interested in exploring and conquering the.
