History of the United States I / Unit 2 USH1 0151 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Portugal's Atlantic Islands
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The idea
Prince Henry drove Portuguese exploration through the fourteen hundreds. Portugal colonised the Canary, Cape Verde, Azores and Madeira islands as staging points for later voyages.
In practice
Sugar plantations rising on those islands, worked by enslaved Africans.
Where people slip
Pope Sixtus the Fourth granted Portugal rights to all land south of Cape Verde.
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