Portuguese contact with New World

Hey Guys,

I've recently started University and one of the topics we do is the Spanish Conquest of the New World (don't worry, natives warriors are spoken about in respect to Cortez). Anyway I'd read somewhere on this forum that the Portuguese had mad contact and was trading with the New World prior to Columbus' discoveries, I was wondering if there was truth in this and if anyone has any viable sources (preferably books, but websites will do too)?

Thanks to anyone who can help!
 
Hey Guys,

I've recently started University and one of the topics we do is the Spanish Conquest of the New World (don't worry, natives warriors are spoken about in respect to Cortez). Anyway I'd read somewhere on this forum that the Portuguese had mad contact and was trading with the New World prior to Columbus' discoveries, I was wondering if there was truth in this and if anyone has any viable sources (preferably books, but websites will do too)?

Thanks to anyone who can help!

I don't know about that, but I think they might have been fishing in the grand banks, and there still might have been some Norse-Inuit/Dorset trading even after the abandonment of Greenland.
 
Hey Guys,

I've recently started University and one of the topics we do is the Spanish Conquest of the New World (don't worry, natives warriors are spoken about in respect to Cortez). Anyway I'd read somewhere on this forum that the Portuguese had mad contact and was trading with the New World prior to Columbus' discoveries, I was wondering if there was truth in this and if anyone has any viable sources (preferably books, but websites will do too)?

Thanks to anyone who can help!
This site might help.
This one is in Portuguese, but reliable and from the Camões Institute.:)
 
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