is he related to the jews by any chance?
There are discussions as to whether João Gonçalves Zarco could have been of Jewish Converso origin
João Gonçalves Zarco
There are discussions as to whether João Gonçalves Zarco could have been of Jewish Converso origin
what factors contributed to the creation of the time period we call the middle ages It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. what is this last thing you mentioned? It  is an informal and loosely defined term for the period in European history in which extensive overseas exploration, led by the Portuguese, emerged as a powerful factor in European culture, most notably the European rediscovery of the Americas. was any ship used for this exploration? yes can you name some of its explorers? João Gonçalves Zarco. who was he in general? He was a Portuguese explorer who established settlements and recognition of the Madeira Islands, and was appointed first captain of Funchal by Henry the Navigator who all first settled here in this island? Portuguese what is the actual location of this island? It is an archipelago situated in the North Atlantic Ocean, in a region known as Macaronesia, just under to the north of the Canary Islands and west of Morocco. what is meant by this first term you used in your answer just now? an island group or island chain what are its types? "oceanic islands", "continental fragments", and "continental islands". from where did the above explorer descend? Portugal
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João Gonçalves Zarco [SEP] Possible Jewish ancestry
There are discussions as to whether João Gonçalves Zarco could have been of Jewish Converso origin. Zarco was a prominent Jewish family from Santarém and Lisbon. Mossé Zarco was King João II's tailor. There was also a Portuguese doctor named Joseph Zarco, whom some authors claim to be Joseph Ibn Sharga, the great kabbalist, and a sixteenth-century poet named Yehuda Zarco. Augusto Mascarenhas Barreto suggested that Christopher Columbus could have been of Jewish descent from Portugal and his real name was Salvador Fernandes Zarco. Isabel Violante Pereira also attributes Jewish ancestry to João Gonçalves Zarco.