Name_______________________________ Date _________________________

 

Bartolomeu Dias

 

Read the information from the websites and complete the following:

 

1.     Dias was born in ________ and explored for the country of ___________________.  He led the first ________________________ trip to sail around Africa’s ___________ of ______________________. He traveled an this_____________________ or trip in 1488.   Because he was able to _______________________ (or travel around) the Cape of Good Hope, trade ____________were opened from Eurpoe to Asia.

 

2.     Dias originally called the Cape of Good Hope the ___________________________.  On a later expedition in1500, _________ sailed with Cabral to South ___________________.  He called this land _________________________, now known as Brazil.  Dias is among the first ____________________ to see Brazil.  Dias died in 1500, near the Cape of Good Hope.

 

 

 

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