The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco Da Gama (77 page)
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Zurara, Gomes Eanes de.
The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea.
Translated by C. R. Beazley and Edgar Prestage. 2 vols. London: Hakluyt Society, 1896–1898.
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Conquests and Discoveries of Henry the Navigator, Being the Chronicles of Azurara.
Edited by Virginia de Castro e Almeida and translated by Bernard Miall. London: Allen & Unwin, 1936.
———.
Crónica da tomada de Ceuta.
Mem Martins: Publicações Europa-América, 1992.
INDEX
Abbasid caliphate,
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,
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,
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Abd al-Rahman III,
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,
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Abd al-Razzaq,
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,
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,
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,
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Acre,
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Aden,
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,
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Gulf of,
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Affaitati, Gianfranco,
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,
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Affonso, Martim,
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,
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,
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Afghanistan,
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Afonso V of Portugal,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Africa,
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,
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.
See also
Cape of Good Hope;
specific places
Barbary Coast,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Berbers and,
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blacks as sons of Ham,
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camel caravans,
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Cão exploration (1482),
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Ceuta as Christian foothold in,
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conversion to Christianity in,
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,
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Dias’s exploration (1487),
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,
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East, as Middle India,
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,
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Gama’s voyage of 1497,
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Gold Coast,
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gold of,
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,
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Gomes explorations (1469),
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inhabitants encountered by Europeans,
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Islam in,
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(
see also specific regions
)
maps of, prior to exploration,
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,
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Portugal’s boundary markers in,
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Portuguese colonization of,
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Portuguese exploration (1445),
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Portuguese named as rulers of Guinea,
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search for
Sinus Aethiopicus
,
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sea route to Asia and,
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,
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slave trade and,
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Swahili coast,
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,
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western coast mapped,
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Age of Discovery,
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Agnadello, Battle of,
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Alfonso I of Aragon,
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Albuquerque, Afonso de,
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ambitions and death of,
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Christian conversion of East and,
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fanatical schemes of,
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Flor de la Mar
and,
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Goa and,
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as governor of India,
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,
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Magellan and,
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Malacca taken by,
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as naval strategist,
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sends ambassador to Siam,
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sends expedition to Canton,
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Alexander Romance
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Alexander the Great,
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Alexander VI, Pope (Rodrigo Borgia),
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Alexandria,
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Alfonso the Brave,
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Alfraganus,
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Aljubarrota, Battle of,
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Almanzor (Abu Amir al-Mansur),
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Almeida, Francisco de,
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death of,
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Flor de la Mar
commanded by,
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piracy and,
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replaced by Albuquerque,
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,
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son killed at Battle of Chaul,
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Almeida, Lourenço de,
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,
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al-Qaeda,
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Alvares, Francisco,
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Álvares, Gonçalo,
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Alvarus, Paul,
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Americas,
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.
See also
Columbus, Christopher
conquistadores and Christianity,
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discovery of, importance,
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Spanish trade route to Asia and,
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Amirante Islands,
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Andrew the Fool, St.,
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Antilla island,
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Antwerp,
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Arabia,
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Albuquerque and blockade of,
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Conti and,
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origins of Islam,
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,
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Ottoman Empire and,
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trade,
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,
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Arabian Nights
,
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Arabs.
See also
Islam
Christian,
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Christian adaptation to culture of,
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as descendants of Abraham,
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,
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dhows (ships),
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Mecca and,
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as Moors,
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spice trade and,
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tactic of
karr wa farr
,
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as traders,
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Arianism,
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Asia,
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.
See also
Arabia; China; India;
specific locations
as birthplace of mankind,
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,
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bubonic plague in,
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European access to,
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European adventure seekers and,
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Europeans blocked from,
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,
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Gama and Western imperialism in,
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legend of Prester John,
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missionaries and route to,
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sea route to,
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,
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spices, gems, and myth,
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West’s view of, as magical realm,
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Averroës (Ibn Rushd),
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Avicenna (Ibn Sina),
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Azores,
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Babur,
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Bacon, Roger,
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Baghdad, Iraq,
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,
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,
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Barbarossa (Khayr ad-Din),
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Barreto, Francisco,
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Baumgarten, Martin,
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Bayezid II,
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Gama buried at,
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Berbers,
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Bergamo, Matteo da,
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Book of Prophecies
(Columbus),
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Braga, Álvaro de,
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Brahmin,
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,
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Bruce, James,
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bubonic plague (Black Death),
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Budapest,
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Buonagrazia, Giovanni,
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Busbecq, Ogier Ghiselin de,
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Cabot, John,
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Cabral, Pedro Álvares,
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attacks on Malabar Coast,
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discovery of Sofala and Kilwa,
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gifts for Zamorin,
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at Kilwa,
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King Manuel’s mandate to,
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,
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mishaps and lost ships,
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,
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order to make war on Calicut,
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passed over for second voyage,
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rounding Cape of Good Hope,
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seizure of Arab ship,
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spice trade and,
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