For 10 points, name this explorer who discovered Brazil for Portugal.
Setting sail for India as supreme admiral with 13 ships, this man fell out with the zamorin of Calicut and retaliated the burning of its trading post by bombarding the city and massacring the crews of 10 Muslim ships, and obtained spices from Cochin. Earlier on that same trip, he had taken a "circle" route around the Gulf of Guinea to avoid the calm waters reported by Vasco da Gama where he sighted the Island of the True Cross, later to be renamed Holy Cross by Manuel I, and yet later to be renamed for a kind of wood. His claim on the land was valid since it did not violate the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas with Spain. For 10 points, name this explorer who discovered Brazil for Portugal.
Setting sail for India as supreme admiral with 13 ships, this man fell out with the zamorin of Calicut and retaliated the burning of its trading post by bombarding the city and massacring the crews of 10 Muslim ships, and obtained spices from Cochin.
Pedro Alvares {Cabral}