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Pursuing the Waves

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Under Prince Henry the Navigator, the maritime school at Sagres gathers Genoese pilots, Catalan cartographers, and Portuguese shipwrights to systematize the navigation of the African Atlantic. Gil Eanes rounds Cape Bojador, the caravels reach Sierra Leone, and Bartolomeu Dias clears the Cape of Good Hope, each voyage extending our charts a hundred leagues further south. This sustained royal investment in exploration positions Portugal as the only kingdom in Europe with the patience to wait two generations for an oceanic reward.

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