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Vasco da Gama descovered India
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. Vasco da Gama was the first to reach India ten years later.
Pedro Escobar was the navigator who helped Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese explorer, sail around the Cape of Good Hope to India. The voyage began in 1497.
Vasco da Gama (Portuguese) was the first to reach India with the direct route from Europe to India. His expedition from Europe to India and back was almost a two year voyage.
Vasco da Gama found an all water route to India. He was a Portuguese explorer born around 1460 in Sines, Germany.
The Portuguese discovered the sea route to, and from, India. For Bartolomeu Dias [c. 1450-May 29, 1500] proved by his expedition of 1487-1488 that it was possible to sail down and around Africa, into the Indian Ocean, and on to India. Previously, trade with India had been by the overland route. And that route was controlled by Muslim middlemen.
For the Portuguese explorer, da Gama.Vasco da Gama is credited with being the first European to sail around Africa to India.
Portuguese explorer BARTOLOMEU DIAS reached in india around 1488.
He was the first Portuguese explorer to reach india.
Vasco da Gama.
because he thought it was India which it isnt
Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to reach India in 1498. He established a maritime route to the East, effectively opening up the age of European exploration and trade with Asia. Da Gama's voyage played a significant role in expanding Portuguese influence and shaping the future of global trade.
Vasco da Gama descovered India
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.
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. Vasco da Gama was the first to reach India ten years later.
The first explorers from Portugal arrived in Calicut, Kerala in India in 1498 led by the explorer Vasco da Gama in search for new trade routes and the famed Indian spices. It was the first time that someone traveled from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. The trip was authorized by the Portuguese Crown in search for more resources and to consolidate their hold on the Indian ocean trade network.
The Portuguese explorer, Vasco da Gama, died on the 24th December 1524, (aged c. 55–65) at Kochi, Portuguese India.