Voyages of Discovery and the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, 1492–1522
A SI A
BRITISH
ISLES
NEWFOUNDLAND
NORTH
AMERICA
PACIFIC
OCEAN
EUROPE
FRANCE
Peking
PORTUGAL SPAIN
Azores
NEW
SPAIN
CHINA
Canary Islands
CUBA
Mexico
HISPANIOLA
Macao
Cape Verde
Islands
AFRICA
GUINEA
Aden
ETHIOPIA
CONGO
Lima
Cuzco
BRAZIL
SOUTH
AMERICA
CHILE
Rio de Janeiro
Mombasa
Mozambique
INDIAN
OCEAN
ANGOLA
Lourenço
Marques
Papua
Sumatra
Madagascar
Java
Amboina
AUSTRALIA
SPANISH PORTUGUESE
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0
0
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
PACIFIC
OCEAN
INDIA
Philippine
Goa
Death of Magellan Islands
Calicut
April 27, 1521
Ceylon
Borneo
Borneo
Malindi
PERU
JAPAN
100 miles
100 km
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Portuguese
claims
ChristopherColumbus,
1492
Juan Sebastián de Elcano, 1522
Spanish
claims
Americo Vespucci, 1497
Ferdinand Magellan, 1521
Vasco Da Gama, 1499
Line of Demarcation, 1494