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.