The splendid Portugal to visit

The splendid portugal to visit

 

La mappa di Piri Reis è un documento cartografico realizzato dall'ammiraglio turco Piri Reìs nel 1513.

 

 

 

 

The reasons for the exploration

Like most people of Western Europe, the Portuguese were the principal explorers in the Middle Ages. The great development of the nations that faced the Atlantic Ocean, rich in harbors and trade centers, gave Portugal the opportunity to develop a great navy, with which the Portuguese could circumvent the difficulties that stemmed trade by land interposition of the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon, often hostile.

Portugal traded well with England, Flanders and the cities of the Hanseatic League. The whole story of the Lusitanian people was inspired by the desire for new conquests by its rulers, who had good game to expand its power in a number of overseas possessions while defending the independence of his country with weapons: long struggles to oust the Moors with the help of foreign crusaders and Knights Templar conferred, however, a taste of religious proselytizing at the desire for conquest. For centuries, then, Portugal became the promoter of a series of conflicts against Islamic nations.

 

 

 

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