(UFRN - 2000)In the century from AD 1480 to 1580 P

(UFRN - 2000)

In the century from AD 1480 to 1580 Portugal gave her people, her religion, her language, her technology, her buildings and decorative arts, her culture and habits, to Brazil, to West and East Africa, to the Red Sea, to India and Sri Lanka, to China and Japan, to the East Indies.

Through Lisbon flowed not only the gold of Brazil and West Africa and the spices of the East Indies, but new treasures of knowledge, new maps, accounts of different peoples and societies, new animal and botanical species.

The voyages of the great Portuguese explorers, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama, and Fernão de Magalhães (better known to history through his Spanish employers as Magellan) were matched or exceeded by ordinary Portuguese, crisscrossing their oceanic empire as servants of the Crown or Christ. Camoens, the Homeric poet of this empire, saw, as a soldier, North Africa, the Gulf, the Red Sea, India, Indochina and the Moluccas.

Highlife, London: British Airways. July 1997. p. 121-122.

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