WORLD HISTORY

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In the beginning, this country dominated exploration and trading.
A
England
B
Spain
C
Portugal
D
France
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Portugal dominated the trade routes to India, China and Japan during the early years of the age of exploration. The Pope granted Portugal exclusive rights to trade in Asia, leaving the Americas and the Pacific islands to Spain. This dominance was challenged and destroyed by the Dutch, British and France.

Detailed explanation-2: -Portuguese sailors were at the vanguard of European exploration, chronicling and mapping the coasts of Africa and Asia, then known as the East Indies, and Canada and Brazil (the West Indies), in what came to be known as the Age of Discovery.

Detailed explanation-3: -Bartolomeu Dias (1450-1500) The first European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope, Bartolomeu Dias discovered the gateway between Europe and India, and the rest of Asia, by sailing around the southern part of Africa in 1488. He was also a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household.

Detailed explanation-4: -During the first quarter of the sixteenth century, Portuguese sailors were active in exploring and exploiting the cod fisheries found in the North Atlantic and along the northeast coast of North America.

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