Vasco da Gama's historic voyage from Portugal to India in 1497–1499 established the first direct sea route between Europe and ...

“The coming to Malabar of Vasco da Gama by the African sea route at the close of the 15th century is not a great navigational exploit from the geographical and historical point of view. da Gama ...

Vasco da Gama was a highly successful Portuguese sailor and explorer during ... A route to India. Da Gama was born in 1460 to a family of ... in addition to making money off the spice trade.

Before Vasco da Gama set foot in India on 27 May 1498, the trade route from India to the West, known as the spice route, had to traverse tricky seas, hostile wi ...

Vasco da Gama simply followed the route traced by Diogo d' Azambuja, Diogo Cao and Bartholomeu Diaz up to the Eastern Cape Province, where the Indian Ocean lay wide open to him. This is definitely ...

Globally, the trade in spices did not begin with the arrival of Vasco da Gama in India in 1498 as is widely believed, according to a research just out.

The amazing voyages of Vasco da Gama. ... The 170 men on board carried instructions to open a sea route from Europe to Asia, to unlock the age-old secrets of the spice trade, ...

Globally, the trade in spices did not begin with the arrival of Vasco da Gama in India in 1498 as is widely believed, according to a research just out. “The Egyptians used spices and the Romans ...

Vasco da Gama didn’t discover the sea route to India, but merely followed an Indian sea merchant from Gujarat named Chandan, who rode a three-four times bigger ship than the Portuguese explorer ...