Question

A. Answer the following questions.
1. Why did John II of Portugal want to find a sea route to India? What did he do to further this purpose?

2. How far did Bartholomew Diaz sail on his voyage?

3. What did Bartholomew Diaz name the African Cape? Why did the King of Portugal change the name ?

4. Whom did the King of Portugal choose to lead the next expedition? Why was he selected?

5. Why did Vasco da Gama order the sailors to sail the ships up a river? What did they name river?​

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4) the king shoes Vasco da Gama a nobelman of high birth and a well known sailor to the lead the second expedition