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[edit] Bartolomeu Dias
bartholomew dais is how his name is spelled not bartholomeu dias {anon 1}
- Bartolomeu Dias is the correct and proper spelling...{anon 2}
[edit] Complete accounts of Diaz and this trip
I think a lot more should be explained about this trip than what is included in the Catholic Encyclopedia. For instance, the pilots on Diaz's ship were African because no European knew how to navigate Africa and yet the locals had been doing it for centuries. The article almost implies no one had ever been around the southern tip of Africa which totally ignores the populations that live there and were seafarers. The ancient Egyptians (~500BC) wrote about trips around the tip and those stories are thought to have spurred Henry the Navigator into sending trips there. Furthermore, because Portugal now had a sea route to the east that didn't pass through Ottoman lands (at the time the Muslim Ottomans allowed free passage of people of all religions through the Red Sea while in Europe Jews and Muslims were being Inquisitioned by the Catholic Church) they set up a blockade in the Mediteranean sea to divert commerce around the tip of Africa where Portugal could tax them. I'll edit the article a little more later since I have several dozen sources on these things. If anyone else wants to follow this up check out the bibliography of "Lies My Teacher Told Me" and read some of that. It's really a shame that an article sourced from that book made the front page of Wikipedia. The information is acceptable, but it leaves out a lot of context and most of the important details. matthew.townsend 1:13AM 2005/2/4
- This is Wikipedia, remember? Why don't you just add that information to the article yourself? Chacho 22:27, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Reply
Hey guys i have a project due on this guy and a whole bunch of other explorers and where they travled on a map! and i can't seem to find any thing on here that shows where he traveled on a actual map! I need more information! 69.22.87.71 01:58, 25 September 2005 (UTC)Samantha
well if you go to either google or yahoo and tipe in dias's exploration route then you should get what your looking for—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.100.20.210 (talk • contribs) .
[edit] "the first European known to do so since ancient times"
The above line in the first paragraph needs at least some form of explanation, and preferably a link. I had always thought that Dias was the first person to sail from Europe all the way around the Cape, adn I doubt that I'm alone. --Dantheox 21:35, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Spelling Issues
His name can be spelled "Bartolomeu Dias" or "Bartholomew Diaz"; both ways are fine.{anon}
no you cant or if you look it up it wont pop up it will say did you mean bartolomeu dias —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.100.20.210 (talk • contribs) .
[edit] Request to add an external link
I want to add an external link to <http://www.namibia-1on1.com/Namibia-Southern/Bartholomew-Diaz.html> Are there any objections or suggestions? Keith Irwin 15:00, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
