Conquerors. How the Portuguese built the First World Empire

The book of the British historian Roger Crowley is dedicated to the era of great conquests and geographical discoveries of the XV-XVI centuries. During the incomplete thirty years of the reign of King Manuel I, the Portuguese sailors managed to tame the winds of the Atlantic, conquer the oceans and establish themselves in unknown lands - Vasco da Gama opened the sea route to India, Pedru Kabral reached the shores of South America, Francisha Di Almeida became the first vice -brol of India, Afons Di Albuker founded a colony in the Persian Gulf and Malacca. The author lively and vividly describes the life and exploits of these fearless sailors, shipwrecking, sea battles and other harsh trials that fell to the share of the founders of the First World Empire. Roger Crowley also talks about navigation and shipbuilding, trade, diplomacy and development of science during the Portuguese expansion, which marked the beginning of the New Age