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Vasco da Gama was born about 1460 at Sines, Portugal. Both Prince John and Prince Manuel continued the efforts of Prince Henry to find a sea route to India, and in 1497 Manuel placed Vasco da Gama, who already had some reputation as a warrior and navigator, in charge of four vessels built especially for the expedition.
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Vasco da Gama: Explorer. Vasco da Gama (1460-1524) was a Portuguese explorer who found a route from Portugal to the East. ... Vasco da Gama sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, on July 8, 1497, heading to the East. At the time, many people thought that da Gama's trip would be impossible because it was assumed that the Indian Ocean...
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Admiral Dom Vasco da Gama, Knight Commander of the Military Order of Christ ... Admiral Dom Vasco da Gama (c. 1469 - 1524)- I Count of Vidigueira, 6 th Governor and 2nd Vice-Roy of India; ... Vasco da Gama arrival at Calicut; (Tapestry, Museu do Caramulo)
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THE SEA-ROUTE TO INDIA & VASCO DA GAMA ... Vasco da Gama navigates the Atlantic and Indian Oceans to reach Asia ... Thus began, as the historian K.M. Panikar noted, the Vasco da Gama epoch of Asian history. That is, the era of history when European nations alone controlled the seas - until the emergence of Japan and the...
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Vasco da Gama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dom Vasco da Gama , 1st Count of Vidigueira ( ) (Sines or Vidigueira, Alentejo, Portugal, ca. either 1460 or 1469 – December 24, 1524 in Kochi, India) was a Portuguese explorer, one of th...
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Vasco da Gama was born about 1460 at Sines, Portugal at a time when Europeans were heavily investing in discovering a sea-route to India. ... In the year 1497 Prince Manuel placed Vasco da Gama, who already had some reputation as a warrior and navigator, in charge of four vessels built especially for an expedition to India.
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