GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama becomes the first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean when he arrives at Calicut on the Malabar Coast. Da Gama sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, in July 1497, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and anchored at Malindi on the east coast of Africa.

Detailed explanation-2: -Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese traveller, was the first to discover the sea route to India.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first successful voyage to India was by Vasco da Gama in 1498, when after sailing around the Cape of good hope he arrived in Calicut now in Kerala. Having arrived there, he obtained from Saamoothiri Rajah permission to trade in the city.

Detailed explanation-4: -India’s Malabar Coast was at the centre of the spice trade-it was the main outlet for Kerala’s large pepper crop-and the place where ships from the Indonesian Spice Islands came to trade cloves with Arab merchants from the Red Sea and Persian Gulf.

Detailed explanation-5: -Vasco De Gama was the first European to find an ocean trading route to India. He accomplished what many explorers before him could not do. His discovery of this sea route helped the Portuguese establish a long-lasting colonial empire in Asia and Africa.