Adopted a militaristic approach to dealing with native cultures they encountered claimed the territory of brazil when pedro álvares cabral landed there found a route to india by sailing around the horn of africa

copernicus finished the first manuscript of his book, "de revolutionibus orbium coelestium" ("on the revolutions of the heavenly spheres") in 1532. in it, copernicus established that the planets orbited the sun rather than the earth. he laid out his model of the solar system and the path of the planets.