1

Internet assignments about the

Portuguese Discoveries



Assignment 1
Use the internet.
Put your answers in your report.
1. Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manueline;
2. Find the main characteristics of the Manuelino style of
architecture;
3. Identify three Portuguese monuments;
4. Choose suitable images to show the three monuments.

Assignment 2
Use the internet.
Put your answers in your report.
1. Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco_da_gama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam%C3%B5es
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_%C3%81lvares_Cabral /
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%A3o_Vasco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joao_II



2
2. These are the names of the main Portuguese navigators/writers:
- Vasco da Gama;
- Lus Vaz de Cames;
- Pedro lvares Cabral;
- Gro Vasco;
- D. Joo II
Choose two and write about them: name, birthplace,
birthdate, what did they do

Assignment 3
Use the internet.
Put your answers in your report.
1. Go to http://www.ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/backgrounds/european-
encounters/guido-abbattista-european-encounters-in-the-age-of-
expansion;
2. Find out the European influences in America, during the 16
th

century;
3. Write four of those influences;
4. Find out the American influences in Europe during the 16
th
century;
5. Write four of those influences.