. Nineteen Christian centuries in outline. A guide to historical study for home reading and literary clubs. CHAPTER XXI. THE FIFTEENTH THE PERIOD OF DISCOVERY. DURING this century Portugal made many Im-portant maritime discoveries and foundedvarious colonies. They colonized Madeira in 1420,doubled Cape Bojader in 1433, discovered the Azoresin 1448, the Cape de Verd Islands in 1460, andGuinea in 1461. Vasco de Gama, having doubledthe Cape of Good Hope, reached the East Indies in1497, and established a trading post. But the greatest discovery of the century was thatof America by Colum
. Nineteen Christian centuries in outline. A guide to historical study for home reading and literary clubs. CHAPTER XXI. THE FIFTEENTH THE PERIOD OF DISCOVERY. DURING this century Portugal made many Im-portant maritime discoveries and foundedvarious colonies. They colonized Madeira in 1420,doubled Cape Bojader in 1433, discovered the Azoresin 1448, the Cape de Verd Islands in 1460, andGuinea in 1461. Vasco de Gama, having doubledthe Cape of Good Hope, reached the East Indies in1497, and established a trading post. But the greatest discovery of the century was thatof America by Columbus in 1492, under the patron-age of Ferdinand and Isabella. II. SOVEREIGNS. EMPERORS OF THE EAST. John Palaeologus II. 1425 Constantine 1448 (Constantinople is capturedby the Turks under SultanMahoinmed II., and the East-ern Empire falls 1453.) KINGS OF FRANCE.(4. The House of Valois.) Charles VII 1422 Louis XI 1461 Charles VIII 1483 Louis XII 1498 NINETEEN CHRISTIAN CENTURIES IN OUTLINE. 287 EMPERORS OF GERMANY. Rupert (Count Pala-tine) 1400 Wenzel ) . i / Jodocus. ... j- i I r 1410Sigismund.
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