HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Vasco da Gama
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Jacques Cartier
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Prince Henry the Navigator
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Ferdinand Magellan
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Vasco da Gama was born in about 1460 into a noble family. Little is known of his early life. In 1497, he was appointed to command an expedition equipped by the Portuguese government, whose intention was to find a maritime route to the East.
Detailed explanation-3: -On July 8, 1497, Vasco da Gama set sail from Lisbon, Portugal, in search of a sea passage to India.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Portuguese nobleman Vasco da Gama (1460-1524) sailed from Lisbon in 1497 on a mission to reach India and open a sea route from Europe to the East.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama, sailing around Africa in 1497, signed on an Arabian pilot at Malindi before he crossed the Indian Ocean to reach the western shores of India.