vasco da gama
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- Born on 1460 in Sines,Portugal. He is a Portuguese explorer. First European who went to India through the Cape of Good Hope at the southern end of Africa.Went to India three times by ship.
- LIFE TIME
- Vasco da Gama
- Vasco da Gama
- Isabel Sodré (mother)
- Estêvão da Gama (father)
- 1.Linked Europe and Asia through an ocean route for the first time.2.Led the Portuguese expedition to India.3.First known European to visit Mombasa.4.First European to reach India by sea...
- ACHIEVEMENTS
- His initial voyage to India (1497–1499) was the first to linkEuropeandAsiaby an ocean route, connecting theAtlanticand theIndianoceans and therefore, theWestand theOrient. This is widely considered a milestone in world history.
- Lesson: Vasco da Gama
- Da Gama'sdiscovery of the sea route to Indiaopened the way for an age of globalimperialismand enabled the Portuguese to establish a long-lastingcolonial empirein Asia.
- Social Studies
- Vasco da Gama went on one last trip in 1524 to be the viceroy (governor) of Calicut, which was by that time a Portuguesecolony.He died soon after he got there onChristmas Eve.
- DEATH
- Vasco da Gama died on 24 December 1524 in Kochi, India due to Malaria.He was buried in Jeronimos Monastery, Lisbon, Portugal.
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