The Great Discoveries

The Great Discoveries

 
In the first half of the fifteenth century the Portuguese, under the leadership of Henry the Navigator, undertake the exploration of the coast of Africa.

In 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered very west of the islands in the Atlantiche believes to be close to Asia.

A few years later Vasco da Gama won the Indies around Africa by the South.

 The Great Discoveries

In 1522 one of the boats of the expedition commanded by Magellan is back in Spain and demonstrates that it is possible to circumnavigate the earth by sea.

In a few decades the representation of Europeans in the world is profoundly changed.