19) Fernão Gomes was a merchant from Lisbon, and he found a new way for expeditions to be funded and caused dramatic changes on the Atlantic world. He bought a contract from the Crown the privilege of exploring 350 miles of new coast every year for five years, in exchange for a monopoly trade he developed there. He founded a place that provided a major source of sugar, which was the island of Sao Torne, and discovered the Gold Coast, which was very important because it became the headquarters of Portugal's West African trade.
20) The voyages of Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco da Gama represented the …show more content…
28) The reactions of Muslim rulers of east African coastal states was that they reacted to visitors in an unfriendly and uninterested way. On the other hand, the responses made by Malindi and Queen Helena of Ethiopia were friendly, viewing the Portuguese as allies and helping them to expand their trade with other states.
29) The connection that exists between Portugal’s King Manuel’s title “Lord of the Conquest, Navigation, and Commerce of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia, and India” and Portugal’s interactions with the Indian Ocean states, is that the actions made by Portugal's King Manuel, which was to conquer the Indian Ocean which was used by nearby merchants, controlled the actions of the India Ocean and resulted in the use of more weapons and armored