Vasco da Gama Vasco da Gama (1460 or 1469 – 24 December 1524)‚ 1st Count of Vidigueira‚ was a Portuguese explorer‚ one of the most successful in the Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India. He is one of the most famous and celebrated explorers from the Discovery Ages‚ being the first European to reach India through sea. This discovery was very significant and paved the way for the Portuguese to establish a long lasting colonial empire in Asia
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Who is Vasco Da Gama? Vasco Da Gama was believed to be borned around 1460s in Sines‚ a Portuguese seaport on the Atlantic ocean. The Da Gamas were minor aristocrats‚ and Vasco’s father‚ Estevao Da Gama and his wife‚ Dona Isabel Sodre had five sons. Vasco was the third. Skills of Vasco Da Gama Gaspar Correia ‚Sixteenth- Century historian‚ written that it was at Evora where he may have learned mathematics and navigation. It is evident that Gama knew astronomy well‚ and it is possible that
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Journal of Vasco da Gama’s Voyage to India‚ 1497-1498 CE (Excerpts) [pic] Vasco da Gama was born about 1460 at Sines‚ Portugal. In 1497 King Manuel I of Portugal placed Vasco da Gama‚ who already had some reputation as a warrior and navigator‚ in charge of four vessels built especially for the expedition to India. The expedition set sail July 8‚ 1497‚ rounded the Cape of Good Hope four months later‚ and reached Calicut on May 20‚ 1498. The Moors in Calicut instigated the ruler of Calicut against
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corChapter 14 Sage Eggen Per.4 Pg.387-396 fo The voyage of Vasxo da Gama has customarily been seen as crucial step in the spening of trade routes to the East. Spice trade has been carried on by sea in the region since the days of the legendary queen of sheba Spice trade was being transported in Muslims ships selling from ports in india or the middle east Major impact of Islam came in the early fifteenth century with the rise of the new sultanate at Malacca The Muslim
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Vasco da Gama is a famous explorer from Sines‚portugal. His date of birth isn’t confirmed but it is guessed that he was born around 1460. Vasco was born in a wealthy family with power ‚ so from the start he had a great opportunity to become great. Being from a wealthy family with great connections he was able to get an excellent education. He became extremely talented when it came to math and navigating. Vasco joined the navy as soon as he could the skills that he learned from school made him very
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Vasco da Gama was born around 1460 in Sines‚ Portugal. Vasco’s father was a knight and an explorer. When he was old enough he decided to join the navy‚ where he was taught how to navigate. Vasco later followed in his father’s footsteps and began to command ships in the king’s name. Little is known about his early life but‚ in 1492‚ Vasco solidified his reputation as a sailor when King John II of Portugal sent him to Lisbon and the Algarve to seize French ships as a sign of vengeance against the French
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Vasco Da Gama 1460-1524 Portuguese Explorer In the last years of the fifteenth century‚ an explorer set off from the Iberian Peninsula‚ full of grand illusions and hoping to reach India by going where no European had ever gone before. Though that statement would seem to describe the 1492 voyage of Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) to the New World‚ it is equally true of a less famous expeditionfrom an American perspective‚ at leastthat set sail five years later. This one was led by Vasco
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Vasco da gama is a man who does not keep his word and that needs to be charged for his crimes.He has done some unbelievable stuff that many people would think that is not right or unreal.And yes he did some amazing things over his lifetime but were they good enough for killing as many lives as he did.I do think he should get what he deserves because what he has done through the coast of Setubal(French port in portugal).As we step back and look at this situation he was in he could of handled it better
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discoveries - a popular term geographical discoveries made at the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries‚ in particular: circumnavigation Cape of Good Hope by Diaz (1488)‚ the discovery of America by Columbus (1492)‚ and then the conquest‚ trip [[Vasco da Gama | to India (1498) and the first trip around the world‚ Magellan (1519-1522). These events triggered a further voyages of discovery and contributed to a significant widening of the geographical horizon of Europeans. Expedition of Christopher Columbus
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discovered. These places held commodities that were new and useful to the Europeans‚ thus they conquered the land and engaged in trade. It is in this time period in which The Lusiads is written. The poem is about a group of Portuguese sailors led by Vasco da Gama on journey from Portugal to India‚ making a stop in the Cape of Storms‚ at the tip of Africa. It is considered to be a national epic as it
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