<Li> João de Santarém </Li> <Li> Duarte Pacheco Pereira </Li> <Li> Lopes Gonçalves (and Atlantic Ocean) </Li> <Ul> <Li> Vasco da Gama (and discovered sea route to India) </Li> <Li> Diogo Dias (and Indian Ocean, discovered Madagascar) </Li> <Li> Pêro da Covilhã (15th / 16th century diplomat and explorer in Ethiopia) </Li> <Li> Pedro Álvares Cabral (discovered Brazil, explored India along the African coast) </Li> <Li> Sancho de Tovar and Vicente Pegado among others (also among the first Europeans ever to contemplate and to describe the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, then referred to by the Portuguese as Monomotapa). </Li> </Ul>

What attracted the european to africa give any three reasons