Quotes About History

the newly discovered land went by various names; not until 1511 did "Brazil" first appear on a map

they tore the Magellan escutcheon from the gates and smashed it to the ground.

The name might have derived from the Portuguese word brasa, meaning glowing coal

that King Manuel had refused to back the navigator, humiliating him over and over again.

punishment of Ferdinand Magellan's crime of moving to Castile.

Portuguese did not maintain a permanent settlement there. A small abandoned customshouse served as the sole evidence of the Portuguese occupation.

Magellan brought a prominent personage with him: Ruy Faleiro, a mathematician, astronomer, and nautical scholar.

The stone that once held the Magellan escutcheon met with a special fate: It was covered with excrement.

No Portuguese ships occupied the harbor when Magellan arrived, and he felt safe enough to drop anchor.

Apparently, a tribe of Fuegian Indians had used the place to bury their dead in warm weather, and then vanished

but they found only a primitive structure sheltering two hundred gravesites.

the land written by Amerigo Vespucci after his visit in 1502.

Darwin felt that he was peering through eons to the dawn of human society. He judged them

the Indians whom Magellan and his crew would encounter in Rio de Janeiro:

Leonor, the twenty-year-old sister of King Charles of Spain.

Vespucci thrilled readers with gruesome accounts of the Indians' customs.

Three times, the king, who had disliked and mistrusted Magellan for more than twenty years, refused

The previous circumnavigation came to a tragic conclusion fifty-five years earlier

In 1518, the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan

More troubling, the Indians practiced cannibalism and human sacrifice in the course of their battles

By October 20, 1517, he had arrived in Seville

the largest city in Andalusia, in southwestern Spain. Ruy Faleiro, and possibly Francisco, joined him

European traders wishing to reach the Spice Islands previously had traveled east rather than west

O mundo que Marco Polo explorou está perdido para a História de muitas maneiras, mas alguns aspectos importantes do retrato que ele traça são surpreendentemente contemporâneos. Como mercador, compreendeu que o comércio era a essência das relações internacionais e que ele se sobrepunha aos sistemas políticos e às crenças religiosas, que são autolimitadores