from where did the above explorer descend?
Portugal
João Gonçalves Zarco
Zarco was born in Portugal, and became a knight at the service of Prince Henry the Navigator's household.
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".
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João Gonçalves Zarco [SEP] Life
Zarco was born in Portugal, and became a knight at the service of Prince Henry the Navigator's household. In his service at an early age, Zarco commanded the caravels guarding the coast of Algarve from the incursions of the Moors, was at the conquest of Ceuta, and later led the caravels that recognized the island of Porto Santo in 1418 to 1419 and afterward, the island of Madeira 1419 to 1420. He founded the city of Câmara de Lobos. He was granted, as hereditary leader (Capitania), half the island of Madeira (the Capitania of Funchal, being its first Captain-major). Together with his fellow fleet commanders, Tristão Vaz Teixeira and Bartolomeu Perestrelo, he started the colonization of the islands in 1425.