A satellite galaxy of our Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud is wonder of the southern sky, named for 16th century Portuguese circumnavigator Ferdinand Magellan.
There is an African bird called the guinea fowl. It has dark feathers with white spots and a patch of brown on the back of its neck. Portuguese traders brought the guinea fowl to Europe through North Africa.
You bet! No chop. Especially for Southern European countries, Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy, high unemployment and consumer recession injured them seriously and encumbered other countries.
Researchers believe it was made between 1496 and 1501 and its thought to have been used by Portuguese navigator Vasco de Gama who is the first European to said from Europe to India.
研究人员认为,这艘船制造于1496年至1501年之间,萄牙航海瓦斯科 · 德 · 伽马(Vasco de Gama)也曾使用过这艘船。Vasco de Gama第一个从欧洲到印度的欧洲人。
When I first learned about caravels, which were those small ships that Portuguese explorers used to travel down the African coast in the 15th century, I had a hard time remembering that name – caravels.