Ten years later, Vasco da Gama reached India. In 1488, Bartolomeu Dias made it around the Cape of Good Hope. But by that time, Portuguese explorers had inched their way south along the coast of Africa, as far as Sierra Leone. "So Christianity and exploration were always tied together?" asked Teichner. The idea, said de Jesus, was to take Christianity to other cultures, to other people, to other lands. Like a venture capitalist, he financed expeditions intended to push the boundaries of the known world - for profit, and to spread Christianity. Here, close to where many explorers began their voyages, Prince Henry surrounded himself with scholars, mapmakers, astronomers, as well as navigators, amassing knowledge and intelligence - the 15th century version of R&D. they believe the sun dived inside the sea and might boil the sea." "They give you a picture, very interesting, how the sun sets here. "The classical people, Romans, Greeks and other civilizations, they believed this is the point where the world finished," said historian Artur de Jesus of the craggy and windswept southwest corner of Europe. We'll begin at Prince Henry the Navigator's outpost in Sagres. How it happened is a story about innovation.
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