Tag: Portuguese Empire

European explorers began to probe the Western Hemisphere in the early 1500s, and they found to their utter amazement not ...

Clove, nutmeg, and mace are native to only a handful of tiny islands in the middle of the vast Indonesian ...

Prince Henry the Navigator (aka Infante Dom Henrique, 1394-1460) was a Portuguese prince who famously helped capture the Moroccan city ...