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Vasco da Gama
Portuguese navigator who rounded Africa and reached Calicut in India in 1498, opening the sea route to India
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Portugal’s Vasco da Gama sailed round southern Africa and reached Calicut in India. A direct sea route from Europe to Asia was open, transforming world trade.
People who appear alongside
- Manuel I of Portugal1469 – 1521
King of Portugal who sent the voyages of Vasco da Gama and Cabral and built Portugal’s Asian trading empire
Themes this person appears in
- Turkic-Islamic Empires and Other Civilizations1000 – 1533
From the Ghaznavid raids on India to the Mughal Empire and Suleiman I — five centuries in which Turkic-led Islamic empires took western Asia and India, while Africa, Southeast Asia and the Americas raised civilisations of their own
- The Age of Discovery1415 – 1600
From Ceuta to the Manila galleons — two centuries in which European ships crossed the oceans and bound the world together by sea