The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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... Portugal and Spain , in pursuing it . For fifteenth - century Portugal , Africa was the land across the narrow seas , just as France was for England . Either country found an outlet for its surplus energies in oversea conquests , but ...
... Portugal and Spain , in pursuing it . For fifteenth - century Portugal , Africa was the land across the narrow seas , just as France was for England . Either country found an outlet for its surplus energies in oversea conquests , but ...
Page 183
... Portugal were adding vast areas to their respective Crowns . Gradu- ally and by slow stages the coast of Africa had been discovered , and in 1486 Bartolomeu Diaz , the Portuguese navigator , had rounded the Cape of Good Hope , the ...
... Portugal were adding vast areas to their respective Crowns . Gradu- ally and by slow stages the coast of Africa had been discovered , and in 1486 Bartolomeu Diaz , the Portuguese navigator , had rounded the Cape of Good Hope , the ...
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... Portugal obtained from Spain the concession that the line , instead of being 100 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands , should be 370 leagues1 west and provisions , which were never executed , were made for determining the position of ...
... Portugal obtained from Spain the concession that the line , instead of being 100 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands , should be 370 leagues1 west and provisions , which were never executed , were made for determining the position of ...
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