Spaniards Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, Francisco de Orellana and Lope de Aguirre, Portuguese Pedro Teixeira and Antônio Raposo Tavares o Velho, and Frenchman Charles Marie de La Condamine were involved in the exploration of what area?
Amazon They explored in the Amazon basin for about 250 years from the start of the 16th century.
Emperor Pedro II, Deodoro da Fonseca, Floriano Peixoto, Manuel Vitorino Pereira and Prudente de Morais are names that crop up in the politics of what country in the 19th century?
The noted 15th and 16th century maritime explorers Ferdinand Magellan, Pedro Álvares Cabral, Vasco da Gama and Bartolomeu Dias (or Bartholomew Diaz) are all of what nationality?
In 1434, Portuguese mariner Gil Eanes made a major breakthrough to obtain a reliable trade route to Western and Eastern Africa and India by finding a route around which cape?
