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Who was the first person to reach India by sailing around Africa?
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This navigator was the first European to reach India by sailing around Africa?
Prince Henry the navigator
Who opened an all water route to the east by sailing around Africa to India?
Bartolomeu Dias
Is it true or false that Vasco da Gama and Bartolomeu Dias were early European explorers who sailed around Africa?
Yes, they were European explorers who were the first to round the Cape of Good Hope. Dias did first, but then his crew forced him to return. Vasco da Gama was the first to reach India by sailing around Africa.
How did changes in the silk road force europeans to look for other ways to trade with Asia?
Traveling by land from Europe to China entailed avoiding robbers and soldiers from possible unfriendly nations. Sea travel was possible by sailing around the southern tip of Africa and then finding silk trading ports in India and China. For this reason a sailing route traveling west from Europe was a hope to find a better way to reach Asia.
Bartolomeu dias captained the first European ship to sail what route?
He was looking for a route to India, he went around the southern tip of Africa. I don't believe he made it , the crew came down with scurvy
When did Da Gama chart a route to India by sailing around Africa?
1498
Who was the first emperor to reach in India by sailing around Africa?
garnali mensis
Da gama charted a route to India by sailing around Africa in what year?
Suck it
What year did De Gama chart a route to India by sailing around Africa?
none of you bidniss.
This navigator was the first European to reach India by sailing around Africa?
Prince Henry the navigator
The first European to reach India by sailing around Africa was?
the Euripean was Vasco Da Gama in 1488.
Who was the first person to travel around the horn of Africa to India?
A Portuguese explorer named Vasco Da Gama was the one who opened this sailing route. A link can be found below.
Da gama charted a route to India by sailing around Africa?
Vasco da Gama sailed to the Cape at the southern end of Africa and then up the Indian Ocean coast of Africa. His destination was Goa and Calicut in India.
How was Christopher Columbus an important person?
Christopher Columbus established South Africa. One day while he was sailing to India for spices he came across the continent Africa.
Who opened a route to India by sailing around the southern coast of Africa?
da gama
Who opened an all water route to the east by sailing around Africa to India?
Bartolomeu Dias
What was Dias' importance of sailing?
His discovery of the ability to sail around the southern tip of Africa to engage in trade with India (and Asia) cut the middlemen out of the overland routes.
