WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Bartolomeu Dias ( c. 1450 – 29 May 1500) was a Portuguese mariner and explorer . In 1488, he became the first European navigator to round the southern tip of Africa and to demonstrate that the most effective southward route for ships lies in the open ocean, well to the west of the African coast.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1488, Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias was the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa and into the Indian Ocean. Soon the Spanish wanted to find a trade route to the Far East. Explorer Christopher Columbus thought that he could sail west, across the Atlantic Ocean, to China.

Detailed explanation-3: -Bartolomeu Dias never made it to India. But he did discover that a sea trade route to Asia was possible by going around Africa. His voyage changed the map of the known world at the time.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Cape of Good Hope is located at the southern tip of the Cape Peninsula, which is also home to Cape Town, the legislative capital of South Africa. The Cape was originally named the Cape of Storms in the 1480s by the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias.

Detailed explanation-5: -Two explorers from Portugal: Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco da Gama were appointed by King John II to find a new trade route to Asia. In 1488, Dias became the first European explorer to round the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa.