artolomeu Dias (c. 1450 CE-1500 CE) was a Portuguese
Bartolomeu Dias was the first European to sail around
the southern tip of Africa in 1488 CE, opening the sea
knight at the court of King John II of Portugal.
route to Asia via the Atlantic and the Indian Oceans.
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Historical setting and purposes of the Dias expedition
Explanation:
Bartolomeu Dias was a squire of the royal court, superintendent of the royal warehouses, and sailing-master of the man-of-war São Cristóvão (Saint Christopher). Very little is known of his early life. King John II of Portugal appointed him, on 10 October 1486, to head an expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa in the hope of finding a trade route to India. Dias was also charged with searching for the lands ruled by Prester John, erroneously believed to be a powerful Christian ruler of territory somewhere beyond Europe.[5] Dias left 10 months later in August 1487. In the previous decades Portuguese mariners, most famously Prince Henry the Navigator (whose contribution was more as a patron and sponsor of voyages of discovery than as a sailor), had explored the areas of the Atlantic Ocean off Southern Europe and Western Africa as far as the Cape Verde Islands and modern-day Sierra Leone, and had gained sufficient knowledge of oceanic shipping and wind patterns to enable subsequent voyages of greater distance. In the early 1480s Diogo Cão in two voyages (he died towards the end of the second) had explored the mouth of the Congo River and sailed south of the Equator to present-day Angola and Namibia