HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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Portuguese
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The French
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Germans
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The Dutch
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Detailed explanation-1: -Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese traveller, was the first to discover the sea route to India.
Detailed explanation-2: -Vasco da Gama was best known for being the first to sail from Europe to India by rounding Africa’s Cape of Good Hope. Over the course of two voyages, beginning in 1497 and 1502, da Gama landed and traded in locales along the coast of southern Africa before reaching India on May 20, 1498.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1498, Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese sailor, found a sea route directly from Europe to India by going around Africa. After Vasco da Gama’s discovery of the new sea route to India, other countries of Southeast Asia and China came on the trade radar.
Detailed explanation-4: -Complete Answer: In 1498, Vasco da Gama of Portugal discovered a new sea route via the Cape of Good Hope to India.