This important discovery, encouraged other sailors to explore and take risks. So it was Portugal, discovered a sea route to the Orient, bending Vasco da Gama southern Africa, Cape of Good Hope which he called. At the forefront of this process were Portugal and Spain, two nations of great maritime tradition. Motivated by the search for new routes for trade with India and the Eastern world, European sailors were making way through the seven seas. In the fifteenth century Europe, begins a wave of unprecedented geographical discoveries so far.
