Macau Macau was handed to China after Portugal decided in 1974 to relinquish all its overseas possessions. The description would equally fit Goa, except that India took it in 1961.
Along the Bight of Benin in West Africa, what did European traders formerly call the coastal area between the Volta River in Ghana and the Lagos Lagoon in Nigeria?
In 1434, Portuguese mariner Gil Eanes made a major breakthrough to obtain a reliable trade route to Western and Eastern Africa and India by finding a route around which cape?
