The Portuguese and Other Peoples of the World

The journeys, cultural meetings and interactions between the portuguese and other peoples created an immense quantity of information. The first century of their discoveries saw a successive stripping away of layers of mediaevalmythology about the world. In this process, peoples from the farthest ends of the earth could see each other for the first time. If the port es saw, they were also seen variously as objects of curiosity, fear and wonder. Across the trading world, images and artifacts of the other reflected a new trans hemispheric awareness.