In other words, days are getting longer. Geologists believe that an Earth day was originally five to six hours long. If the moon had been less massive, thereby creating less drag on Earth, our planet wouldn't have slowed down as much. The day would be, perhaps, 15 hours long.
Bartolomeu Dias Born-1457 Bartolomeu DIas sponsers Almost everyone that explored in the old days had to have a sponser an the person that sponsered Bartolomeus expedition was King Henry II he sponsered this expedition because he wanted to find a new route to china to trade spices with them but instead DIas found or really discovered the southern tip of Africa an King Henry II named it Cape of Good Hope Bartolomeu Dias discoveries an characteristics Positive and Negative effects Died-1500 ...
In 1501, Cabral returned to Portugal with pearls, diamonds, porcelain, and such spices as pepper, ginger, cinnamon, and cloves. Because of the great loss of lives on the voyages, especially the loss of Bartlolmeu Dias who went down with his ship off the Cape of Good Hope, it was not a happy homecoming.e was the third son of Fern o Cabral, the Governor of Beria and Belmonte, and Isabel de Goveia de Queir s, descendent of the first King of Portugal, Afonso I. Pedro Cabral married Isabel de Castro, the daughter of Fern o de Noromha, also a descendent of King Afonso I.