• Age of Discovery
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  • Why did the discoveries start?
    Europe needed a new route to India.
  • Who was Bartolomeu Dias?
    A Portuguese explorer who started his journey in 1487. He reached the southern part of Africa, then turned back.
  • When did Christopher Columbus start his journey?
    in 1492.
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