The earlier geographers that told him that were Ptolemy and Paolo Toscanelli.
Vasco du Gama was the Portuguese explorer who successfully completed the first all-water route to get to India. He traveled around Africa to get to India.
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That was the year Christopher Columbus found the New World. There had be traffic between the Old World (Europe & Asia) and the New World (North & South America) for centuries. Probably because so much knowledge was lost during the Dark Ages academics of the time believed the world was flat and there was nothing but water between the world they knew and the edge of the world. Columbus believed the world was round and that he could reach what we know as Asia by sailing West. He believed that going West would be much shorter than going all the way around Africa. Consequently, when he reached the Caribbean he thought he had reached Asia. Boy was he wrong! He didn't realize at first that he had re-discovered a continent(s) that had been forgotten for centuries.
Vasco-da-gama from Portugal was the first European explorer to reach India by sailing around the tip of Africa.
Bartolomeu Dias
They actually did reach Asia by going around Africa.
In may20 1498 it was vasco da gama who reached Calicut beach(Kappad) by travelling around Africa
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They actually did reach Asia by going around Africa.
Bartolomeu Dias. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean.
Portuguese explorer BARTOLOMEU DIAS reached in india around 1488.