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第六章 Age of Discovery 航海时代 (第20/46页)
. In 1488, Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and in 1498, Vasco da Gama reached India. In 1500, by an accidental landfall on the South American coast for some, by the crown’s secret design for others, Pedro álvares Cabral discovered Brazil. Over the following decades, Portuguese sailors continued to explore the coasts and islands of East Asia, establishing forts and factories as they went. By 1571, a string of outposts connected Lisbon to Nagasaki along the coasts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia. This commercial network brought great wealth to Portugal. ??Between 1580 and 1640 Portugal became the junior partner to Spain in the union of the two countries’ crowns. Tho
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