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Enslaved workers were considered to be property, not people.
As you can see in the second sentence, in the eyes of the law, he was not a man but a thing.
They were also a subject to a narrow minded and a tryannical master.
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Bartolomeu Dias - a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer. He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European to do so, setting up the route from Europe to Asia later on.
Vasco de Gama - 1st Count of Vidigueira, was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. His initial voyage to India was the first to link Europe and Asia by an ocean route, connecting the Atlantic and the Indian oceans and therefore, the West and the Orient
Ferdinand Magellan - a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth, which was completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano.
Christopher Columbus - an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
Kamikaze pilots were Japanese pilots that deliberately (and suicidally) crash landed into enemy ships during WWII
I believe it was the crusades, which was attacking for the land known as "Jesus's birthplace", need anything, tag me :)
