Re: [nukkad] Serfing Quiz : 1

["Ravi Menon" <>]

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>From Wiki for those interested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Empire

In an expedition to Tangier <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangier>,
undertaken in 1436 by King Edward of
Portugal<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_of_Portugal>(1433-1438),
the Portuguese army was defeated and only escaped destruction
by surrendering Prince Ferdinand, the king's youngest brother. By sea,
Prince Henry's captains continued their exploration of
Africa<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa>and the Atlantic Ocean. In
1434, Cape
Bojador <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Bojador> was crossed by Gil
Eanes<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Eanes>.
In 1441, the first consignment of
slaves<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Slavery>was brought to
Lisbon <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon> and slave trading soon became
one of the most profitable branches of Portuguese commerce.
Senegal<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal>and Cape
Verde <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verde> were reached in 1445. In
1446, António 
Fernandes<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_Fernandes>pushed
on almost as far as present-day Sierra
Leone <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone>.

Ravi
On 3/27/08, Rohit Mansukhlal  wrote:
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> On 3/26/08, Ravi Menon  wrote:
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> > I believe the Portuguese and Arabs traded on the East coast of Africa?
> and
> > the slaves in the US came from the West coast, with the Arab slaves
> coming
> > from East Africa.
> > Most Sudanese - both Men and Women - carry facial scars which are tribal
> > markings, to identify the tribe in case they were kidnapped to be
> returned
> > home safely.
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>   The west coast of Africa being at stone throw distance from Portugal,
> they had good
>   presence there. So were Arabs settled on the west coast for their
> Maghrib
> empire once
>   extended right to the gates of western Morocco and Gibraltor. Although
> the Maghrib
>   was broken up at the time we are talking about and the vast Arab lands
> of
> north and
>   north western Africa had fallen to the imperial designs of the
> Europeans,
> namely,
>   Spanish, French and Italian, the local population was always almost
> entirely Arab
> Muslims, except perhaps to some extent Mauritania. Thus Arabs too like the
> Portugese
> had their naval and trading posts on the western African sea board.
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> Rohit Zaveri
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