Mission of Portuguese navigator Duarte Pacheco Pereira on the eve of Brazil discovery

• Published in: American History & Politics: Scientific edition
• Main Author: Pavel Kryazhev
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Ukrainian
• Published: Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv 2017
• Subjects: geographic discoveries; portugal; brazil; toledo treaty; tordesillas treaty; History (General); D1-2009; Latin America. Spanish America; F1201-3799; International relations; JZ2-6530; Law; K; Social Sciences; H; Duarte; Toledo; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.17721/2521-1706.2017.03.214-223; https://doaj.org/article/ab4f8698d591473b8c92331c84627102

In the article we examine the mission of a Portuguese navigator Duarte Pacheco Pereira on the eve of Brazil discovery by the squadron of major-captain Pedro Alvares Cabral in 1500. We emphasized on the extract of Pereira guide-book which narrates about order of portuguese monarch Manuel I to dispatc...