While in the service of Spain, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan led the first European voyage of discovery to ...

Keywords Age of Discovery, exploration, Spanish explorers, Portuguese explorers, Prince Henry the Navigator, Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Ferdinand Magellan, conquistadores, maritime ...

The following year, Portuguese explorers returned from Africa with nearly thirty slaves. Within ten years, thousands of slaves had been transported by sea to Portugal and the Portuguese Islands.

The Victoria was “very old and patched up,” a Portuguese consul said in the summer of 1519. ... For 300 years, many more explorers, captains, ...

Portuguese explorers, traders, and colonizers established footholds along Africa’s coasts, from Angola to Mozambique. Initially, the language served as a tool for commerce and governance.

The explorers' cargo Lisbon's new Museu do Oriente shows off amazing collection. ... now-legendary Portuguese explorers such as Bartolomey Dias (d. 1500), Afonso de Albuquerque (1453-1515) ...