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Descobertas Portuguesas (1487-1497)

Nos séculos 15 e 16, Portugal, um reino ibérico com apenas um milhão de habitantes, estava cercado pelo Atlântico à sua frente e pelo hostil Reino de Castela atrás. Depois de anos de luta contra a ocupação moura, os portugueses desviaram sua atenção e energia para o mar e o que estava além. Enquanto os espânicos iniciaram a busca por uma rota para o oriente viajando pelo oeste, os portugueses optaram pelo então chamado Ciclo Sul, pela costa da África. Alcançando o Cabo da Boa Esperança em 1487, eles foram levados pelo navegador Vasco da Gama através do Oceano Índico a descobrir a rota marítima para o Extremo Oriente em 1497. Eles sabiam da existência de terras do outro lado do Atlântico e fizeram várias expedições ao Oeste antes de Colombo descobrir as Antilhas em 1492, mas eles mantiveram o conhecimento para si mesmos para não despertar as ambições da Espanha, Inglaterra e França. Para uma pequena nação, o segredo era o único método disponível de salvaguardar as recompensas da ousada e bem-sucedida expedição da exploração pelos rivais marítimos mais poderosos.

O Tratado de Tordesilhas (1494) encerrava a questão da posse das novas terras entre Espanha e Portugal. Concordou-se que os territórios ao leste de um meridiano à 370 léguas oeste das Ilhas de Cabo Verde deveriam pertencer a Portugal, as terras ao oeste à Espanha. Esta linha imaginária, de pólo a pólo, passava através do leste - a maior parte no continente Sul Americano e constituiu a primeira fronteira do Brasil, embora a descoberta formal por Pedro Álvares Cabral não ter acontecido até seis anos depois, em 1500.

Portuguese Discoveries (1487-1497)

In the 15th and 16th centuries Portugal, an Iberian Kingdom with barely a million inhabitants, was hemmed in by the Atlantic in front and by a hostile Castile behind. After years of struggle against the Moorish occupation, the Portuguese turned their attention and energy to the sea and what lay beyond. While the Spaniards set out in search of a route to the Orient by voyaging to the West, the Portuguese opted for the so-called Southern Cycle down the African coast. Reaching the Cape of Good Hope in 1487, they were led by the navigator, Vasco da Gama, across the Indian Ocean to discover the sea route to the Far East in 1497. They knew of the existence of lands across the Atlantic and they had made several expeditions to the West before Columbus discovered the Antilles in 1492, but they had kept the knowledge to themselves in order to forestall the ambitions of Spain, England, and France. For a small nation, secrecy was the only available method of safeguarding the rewards of bold and successful exploration against exploitation by more powerful maritime rivals.

The Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) settled the question of possession of the new lands between Spain and Portugal. It was agreed that territories lying east of a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands should belong to Portugal, the lands to the west to Spain. This imaginary line, from pole to pole, cut through the eastern- most part of the South American continent and constituted Brazil's first frontier, although the formal discovery by Pedro Alvares Cabral did not take place until six years later in 1500.

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Yeahcarl

ok, that's my last try!!!
I've been trying to post this sound file forever!!!!
somebody, please, help me out!!!
ok, I tried but it didn't recognize the archives: z01, z02, etc, which are zip files...
That's why I record it sentence by sentence and them post it!!!
I have the mp3 file but I just can't post it...

Yeahcarl

I posted each sentence separately!!!
It was the only way I found!!!