Bartolomeu Dias

Assembled from 13 blocks · 1 evidence · 8 related

1. Story
2. The Portuguese navigator who established that the Atlantic and Indian Oceans connect. Sailing from Lisbon in 1487 with two caravels and a supply ship, he was driven far south of the African coast by a storm, ran east expecting to raise land, found none, and turned north to strike the coast beyond its southern tip — proving the passage by accident of weather rather than by intention. His crews forced him to turn back at the Great Fish River, and he sighted the cape itself on the return. He named it, on the usual account, the Cape of Storms, and King John II renamed it the Cape of Good Hope for what it now made possible. Dias did not reach India, and the discovery sat unexploited for nearly a decade while Portugal weighed the cost; he later commanded on Cabral's 1500 fleet and was lost in a storm off the same cape.
3. Knowledge
4. Bartolomeu Dias
5. Cape of Good Hope
6. Connections
7. Cape of Good Hope
8. Dias rounds the southern tip of Africa
9. The Cape route (Carreira da Índia)
10. Bartolomeu Dias
11. Dias rounds the southern tip of Africa
12. Evidence
13. 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.