The book A General History for Colleges And High Schools was written by author Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937 Here you can read free online of A General History for Colleges And High Schools book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A General History for Colleges And High Schools a good or bad book?
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It made the ports of Portugal and of other coun- tries on the Atlantic seaboard the depots of the Eastern trade. " The front of Europe was suddenly changed. " The Italian mer- chants were ruined. The great warehouses of Egypt and Syria were left empty. The traffic of the Mediterranean dwindled to insignificant proportions. Portugal established trading-posts and colonies in the East, and built up there a great empire, — like that which England is maintaining in the same region at the present day.... The Voyage around the Globe (15 19-15 2 2). — Upon the re- turn of Columbus from his successful expedition, Pope Alexander VI. , with a view to adjusting the conflicting claims of Spain and Portugal, divided the world by a meridian line drawn about mid- way through the Atlantic, and gave to the Spanish sovereigns all unclaimed pagan lands that their subjects might find west of this line, and to the Portuguese kings all new pagan lands dis- covered by Portuguese navigators east of the designated merid- ian.
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