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.
The old imperial map is influencing this: Pankaj Ghemawat, author of a recent book on globalisation, thinks that the Spanish, Portuguese and British empires will re-emerge through these new economic ties.
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.
研究员认为,这艘船制造于1496年至1501年之间,葡萄牙航海家瓦斯科 · 德 · 伽马(Vasco de Gama)也曾使用过这艘船。Vasco de Gama是第一个从欧洲到印度的欧洲。
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.