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Dubois also felt his discoveries confirmed two popular, contemporary theories: that upright posture was the first stage in the evolution that gave rise to humans, and that the East Indies (and not Africa, as scientists including Darwin had proposed) was the birthplace of the human race.
Portuguese sailors were at the vanguard of European exploration, chronicling and mapping the coasts of Africa and Asia, then known as the East Indies, and Canada and Brazil (the West Indies ), in what came to be known as the Age of Discovery.
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Jul 24, 2019 · After some of the accusations were proven to be true, Magellan lost all offers of employment from the Portuguese after 1514. The Spanish and the Spice Islands Around this same time, the Spanish were engaged in trying to find a new route to the Spice Islands (the East Indies, in present-day Indonesia ) after the Treaty of Tordesillas divided the ...
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Eugène Dubois. Marie Eugène François Thomas Dubois (January 28, 1858 – December 16, 1940) was a Dutch anatomist, who earned worldwide fame with his discovery of the first specimens of early hominid remains to be found outside of Europe. These discoveries of what he called " Java man ," made on the Indonesian island of Java, would later be ...
Oct 29, 2009 · In search of fame and fortune, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1480-1521) set out from Spain in 1519 with a fleet of five ships to discover a western sea route to the Spice Islands....
Jun 9, 2021 · Accordingly, explorers like Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) and Vasco da Gama (c. 1469-1524) were sent to find a maritime route from Europe to Asia. To the west, Columbus found a new continent in his way, but to the south, da Gama did round the Cape of Good Hope, sail up the coast of East Africa, and cross the Indian Ocean to reach India.
