The man being described here is Prince Henry the Navigator. Prince Henry was a Portuguese man who helped spark the age of exploration. He is known for his several contributions to this era, including:
1) Opening of a school for navigation in Sagres, Portugal.
2) Mapping the west coast of Africa.
3) Laid the foundation for individuals like Christopher Columbus, Vasco Da Gama, and John Cabot.
According to the
census of 1790, there were about seven hundred thousand slaves of African
ancestry lived in the colonies, (precisely 694,280) with the most living in the state of Virginia where <span>292,627 enslaved Africans were counted. Although
there had been some skepticism about the counting that it might be undercounted. </span>
The answer is - occupied with exploration.
While the Spanish still had problems with the Muslims and were giving their best to expel them, the Portuguese did not have problems of this type, so they were free to develop their economy and perform explorations. Because of the explorations Portugal made, they were able to find out new routes to the east, this meant free trade by their own terms, which led to increasing of the wealth of the country, and thus making it one of the most powerful countries in the world. Also because of their explorations, the Portuguese managed to get hold on to new territories and colonize them.
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The "Columbian encounter" is called the event that occurred on October 12, 1492, when Christopher Columbus and a group of Spanish soldiers became the first European to set foot on the American continent. Thus, from this moment, which is considered as the discovery of America, the Spanish Empire and the remaining European powers (Portugal, France, Great Britain and the Netherlands mainly) began to establish colonies on the continent, starting the exploitation of their territories and natural resources. In the classic narrative of this event, the natives are called savages, as they supposedly were wild and violent, which is tendentious in that their behavior only responded to the violence with which the Europeans handled themselves during the conquest of their ancestral territories.
