| A | B |
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| What was the first European country to find a sea route to Asia? | Portugal |
| Prince Henry of Portugal | “the Navigator” |
| Why did the merchants want to find a sea route to Asia? | faster then the Silk Road |
| What continent did the explorers have to sail around to get to Asia? | Africa |
| Portugal's Relative Location | North of Africa, West of Spain, East of the Atlantic Ocean |
| Caravels | small, light ships with triangular sails |
| in the year 1448 | Portugal set up a trading post in West Africa |
| Portuguese Slave Trade | slavery existed before the Portuguese arrived in Africa |
| Bartolomeu Dias | explored the coast of Western Africa |
| the southern tip of Africa | “ Cape of Good Hope” |
| in the year 1487 | storm blew Dias’s ships off course and they sailed around the southern tip of Africa |
| Vasco Da Gama | he made the first voyage sailing to India from Portugal |
| in the year 1497 | first European trip to Asia by sailing around Africa |
