Portuguese Colonization of the Americas
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Portugal was the leading country in the European exploration of the world in the 15th century. The Treaty of Tordesillas split the New World into Spanish and Portuguese zones in 1494. Portugal colonised parts of South America (mostly Brazil), but there were some failed attempts to settle in North America in today's Canada. In 1501 and 1502 the Corte-Real brothers explored Newfoundland and Labrador and claimed it to the Portuguese Crown. Soon, in 1506, king Manuel I created taxes for the fisheries of cod in Newfoundland. João Álvares Fagundes' colony…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Portugal was the leading country in the European exploration of the world in the 15th century. The Treaty of Tordesillas split the New World into Spanish and Portuguese zones in 1494. Portugal colonised parts of South America (mostly Brazil), but there were some failed attempts to settle in North America in today's Canada. In 1501 and 1502 the Corte-Real brothers explored Newfoundland and Labrador and claimed it to the Portuguese Crown. Soon, in 1506, king Manuel I created taxes for the fisheries of cod in Newfoundland. João Álvares Fagundes' colony in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia was only five years old when it was abandoned. Hostility from the natives was the main cause of the project's failure.