SSC MTS EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -These were Portugal, Spain, England, France, and the Netherlands. Two explorer s from Portugal: Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco da Gama were appointed by King John II to find a new trade route to Asia. In 1488, Dias became the first European explorer to round the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa.

Detailed explanation-2: -Europeans wanted the power and resulting wealth that would come from controlling trade. Finding all-water routes to Asia and its riches would allow European merchants to cut out Middle Eastern middlemen and reap all the profits of eastern trade.

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: -Portugal sent out Vasco da Gama who found a trade route around the southern tip of Africa and to India. They also explored much of the Far East and were the first Europeans to establish a trading colony in China at Macau.