Sources please?
2007-01-25 00:29:44 · 4 answers · asked by Armin 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Bartolomeu Dias (1457-1500) was a great Portuguese navigator and explorer who explored Africa's coast. In 1488, Dias led the first European expedition to sail around Africa's Cape of Good Hope, leaving Tagus, Portugal in 1487. This breakthrough of circumnavigating the Cape of Good Hope opened up lucrative trading routes from Europe to Asia. Dias may have originally called the southern tip of Africa the "Cape of Storms"; it was later renamed the Cape of Good Hope. On a later expedition (in 1500, with Pedro Álvares Cabral), Dias sailed near South America on the way to Africa, and spotted land at Espírito Santo in Brazil, calling it the "Land of the True Cross." Although they thought it to be an island, Dias was still among the first Europeans to see Brazil. Dias died during this expedition; he was lost at sea near near the Cape of Good Hope in 1500.
2007-01-25 00:59:51 · answer #1 · answered by John 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Where Did Dias Explore
2016-10-19 08:45:14 · answer #2 · answered by shiner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he was Portuguese explorer of the African west coast and island in the Atlantic and he was the first European to sail around the cape good hope
2007-01-25 00:40:45 · answer #3 · answered by ahmed_halim2025 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Steve Arwin (killed recently by a sting ray), Terry Arwin
2016-05-23 22:00:48 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋