The flood made silt near rivers and silt made land extremely fertile for farming.
Prince Henry the Navigator opened a school for navigation where he lived which was Portugal
The term muckraker<span> was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt. ... The term is a reference to a character in John Bunyan's classic Pilgrim's Progress, "the Man with the Muck-rake", who rejected salvation to focus on filth.</span>
The bay offered good harbors , and the land was fertile. Also, the English had believed there were rich gold mines