Cabral sights the coast of Brazil

Assembled from 27 blocks · 1 evidence · 24 related

1. Story
2. Pedro Álvares Cabral, commanding the second India fleet and sailing the wide westward arc of the volta do mar largo through the South Atlantic, raised land on the South American coast and claimed it for Portugal before continuing to India. Whether the swing west was navigational routine or deliberate reconnaissance has been argued since the sixteenth century. Either way the encounter fell on the Portuguese side of the Tordesillas line, and the largest state in South America speaks Portuguese because of a sailing technique for catching the wind.
3. Knowledge
4. Volta do mar (the return by sea)
5. The Cape route (Carreira da Índia)
6. Cabral sights the coast of Brazil
7. Connections
8. Volta do mar (the return by sea)
9. The Cape route (Carreira da Índia)
10. The Atlantic wind and current system
11. The Cape route (Carreira da Índia)
12. The Atlantic crossing (Carrera de Indias)
13. Gil Eanes passes Cape Bojador
14. Cabral sights the coast of Brazil
15. Volta do mar (the return by sea)
16. Cape of Good Hope
17. Goa
18. Pepper
19. Carrack (nau)
20. Lisbon
21. Casa da Índia, Lisbon
22. Dias rounds the southern tip of Africa
23. Vasco da Gama reaches Calicut
24. Cabral sights the coast of Brazil
25. Albuquerque takes Malacca
26. Evidence
27. The standard single-volume account of Portuguese expansion: Ceuta, the African coast, the Cape route, the carreira da Índia, the Estado da Índia and the institutions that ran them. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted in this session. Boxer is a mid-twentieth-century imperial history and its framing has been substantially revised by later work, particularly on Asian agency and on the limits of Portuguese control; this pack uses it for structure, not for interpretation.