Episode 42 - The Portuguese and Spanish Colonies in the New World

OK, in the last episode, we had Columbus finding the New World, but thinking it was India. Meanwhile, Vasco de Gama found the actual India for Portugal. Then John Cabot found Newfoundland, only 500 years after Lief Ericson had found Newfoundland. Maybe they should call it re-found land. Anyway, by about 1510, the seafaring powers of Europe had a pretty good map of the east coast of the Americas, from the north part of Canada, down to the south part of Brazil. They also had a map of Africa, all the way around to the Middle East and then on around to China and beyond. The world map was coming together.