La presentación de Sociales .

1. By : Alexander López 2ºD

2. The explorations of the Portuguese :
• Prince Henry the Navigator started promoting sea
travel , after this the Portuguese wanted to know what
was beyond the Cape of Good Hope and if it was
posible to reach the East Indies
( America ) .
• They signed the Treaty of Alcaçovas and after
successive expeditions the Portuguese ocuppied the
islands of Madeira , Azores and Cape Verde.
• In 1460 they reached the Gulf of Guinea , and finally
the rounded the Cape of Good Hope ( 1488 ), in 1498
they reached India thanks to Vasco da Gama.

3. The territories discovered by the
Portuguese:

4. The discovery of America!
• Christopher Columbus ,a sailor of Italian
origin , had the idea that it would be possible
to reach India by travelling west . He
proposed it to King John II of Portugal , who
rejected it . Then he presented it to the
Catholic kings , who accepted it and signed
the Capitulation of Santa Fe. This meant that
Columbus would recive a tenth of the wealth
discovered .

5. The discovery of America!
• Columbus left from Palos harbour . After a
month and a half they finally reach America
on the 12th of October 1942 ( the island of
Guanahani in the Bahamas which he named
: San salvador).
• He made three more voyages from Spain to
the discovered lands , but he died believing
he had reached India . This is why these are
called West Indies .
• The man that said that these lands were a
new continent was Amerigo Vespucci and
he gave it his name : America.

6. Territory discovered by Columbus :

7. The Treaty of Tordesillas :
• The Treaty of Tordesillas 1494 , was approved
by the Pope and divided the world into two
parts , one part was for Spain and the other
one was for Portugal .After this agreement
Portugal established its control over Brazil in
1500.