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Questions about the Portuguese

Discoveries

1. When did the Portuguese
Discoveries begin?

2. Name the main routes of the
Portuguese Discoveries.


3. Fill in the following timeline with key events of the
Portuguese Discoveries:

1415
1419/20
1427
1434
1443
1456
1482/83
1488
1498
1500
1507
1511
1557


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4. Find out 4 navigation instruments used during the
Portuguese Discoveries and provide a
picture of each one.

5. Tell the name of the main ships used
at the time of the Portuguese
Discoveries and present a picture of
them.

6. Identify the loading painters of the period of the
Portuguese Renaissance and choose two paintings
of each of them to present.

7. Tell the name of four of the Portuguese colonies.

8. Appoint the main products that the Portuguese
brought from their colonies.

9. Write a small essay (about 20 lines) on the slave
trade developed by the Portuguese during the 15
th

and 16
th
centuries.