9 years after B. Dias rounded Africa's tip, this explorer sailed on to open sea route to India
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EXPLORERS AGE OF EXPLORATION HEND JCMS Flashcards ...  Start studying EXPLORERS AGE OF EXPLORATION HEND JCMS. ... Bartolomeu Dias ... round the southern tip of Africa, opening the way for a sea route from Europe to Asia. Dias' ships rounded the perilous Cape of Good Hope and then sailed ... the Pacific Ocean, and after conquering Peru, founded its capital city, Lima.
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Bartholomeu Dias | South African History Online  Sep 18, 2013 ... Dias took part in Cabral's expedition that discovered Brazil, but ... Portuguese navigator discovered the Cape of Good Hope in 1488 and maritime explorer ... was a feasible route to India around the storm-driven southern tip of Africa. ... The epoch-making voyage of Dias not only opened up the sea route to...
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Vasco da Gama - Wikipedia  Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to ... Da Gama's discovery of the sea route to India was significant and opened .... Within a few years, Gomes' captains expanded Portuguese knowledge ... soon after, when John II's captain Bartolomeu Dias returned from rounding...
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Vasco da Gama - Explorer - Biography.com  Jul 8, 2014 ... Vasco de Gama - Mini Biography (TV-14; 3:25) Explorer Vasco da ... Bartolomeu Dias discovered the southern tip of Africa and rounded ... the 200-ton St. Gabriel, to find a sailing route to India and the East. ... The first ship in the fleet didn't reach Portugal until July 10, nearly a full year after they'd left India.
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Portuguese discoveries - Wikipedia  Portuguese discoveries (Portuguese: Descobrimentos portugueses) are the numerous .... After the defeat at Tangier, Henry retired to Sagres on the southern tip of ... In 1488, Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip of ... the long-standing Portuguese goal of finding a sea route to Asia was finally...
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European Expansion - EB.html  1st century BC, Western traders reached Siam (now Thailand), Cambodia, Sumatra, .... however, doubts of the validity of Columbus' claim were current. ... 45 instead of 60 nautical miles as the value of a degree; he accepted .... The northeast coast .... at the Cape, they soon learned that, by sailing east for some 3,000 miles
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Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean via the Atlantic Ocean | HISTORY  ... dangerous straits below South America that now bear his name, Portuguese navigator ... becoming the first European explorer to reach the Pacific from the Atlantic. ... for a way through; failing, he continued south along the coast of Patagonia. ... The vessel sailed across the Indian Ocean, rounded the Cape of Good Hope,...
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HISTORY OF THE PORTUGUESE EMPIRE  Vasco da Gama, adventuring south and east for Portugal, reaches India in 1498. ... valuable commodities - until now brought overland through India and Arabia, and ... the slave trade, resulting in Portuguese settlements in both Guinea and Angola. ... In both Spanish and Portuguese colonies of Latin America the preaching...
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HISTORY OF PORTUGAL  HISTORY OF PORTUGAL including Navigators, Down the African coast, ... Dias proves that there is a sea route round the southern tip of Africa. In the second, ten years later, Vasco da Gama demonstrates that this route leads to India. ... He makes landfall at Mossel Bay in February 1488. ... The ships leave Lisbon in 1497.
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Bartolomeu Dias - Wikipedia  Bartolomeu Dias a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer. He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, reaching the Indian ... Bartolomeu Dias originally named the Cape of Good Hope the "Cape of ... a huge storm off the cape and were lost, including Dias', on 29 May 1500.
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Vasco da Gama facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  1460-1524) was the first to travel by sea from Portugal to India. ... (commanded, respectively, by his brother Paulo and Nicolas Coelho) and a large supply ship. ... decided to cooperate with da Gama and lent him the services of the famous Indian pilot Ibn ... A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama, 1497-1499 (1898).
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Chronology of European exploration of Asia - Wikipedia  This is a chronology of the early European exploration of Asia. Contents. [hide]. 1 First wave of ... 226: A Roman diplomat or merchant lands in northern Vietnam and visits ... In 1266, they reach Kublai Khan's seat at Dadu, now known as Beijing, China ... 1420-1436: Travels of the Italian explorer Niccol Da Conti to India and...
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Quem Ousa, Vence!: Vasco da Gama Seeks Sea Route to India  Oct 11, 2006 ... He knew that Muslim merchants carried these spices by caravan ... Vasco da Gama was a grim, cynical man, notoriously merciless, an expert at torturing prisoners .... On May 18, 1498, they reached the city of Calicut on the Malabar Coast of India. ... 'We come in search of Christians and spices,' Nunes said.
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Gama, Vasco da  Commissioned by Manuel, king of Portugal, to reach India by sea, da Gama sailed ... of Good Hope (first rounded in 1488 by the Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias) ... and on May 20, 1498, reached Calicut on the Malabar Coast of India.
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Vasco da Gama - Wikipedia  Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. His initial voyage to India (14971499) was the first to link Europe and Asia .... The fleet arrived in Kappadu near Kozhikode (Calicut), in Malabar Coast (present day Kerala state of India), on 20 May 1498.
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Christopher Columbus - Exploration - HISTORY.com  The explorer Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from ... He also began to hatch the plan that would change the world forever. ... On October 12, the ships made landfallnot in Asia, as Columbus assumed, but on one of the ... The queen was horrifiedshe believed that any people Columbus...
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Trading Post Empires Webquest  ... World Encyclopedia on the Portuguese Empire to answer these questions. ... and in 1498 Vasco da Gama reached India and established the first Portuguese ... is an excerpt from Vasco da Gama's journal describing his arrival in Calicut, India. ... home, and he told them that we came in search of Christians and of spices.
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Student Resources in Context - Document - Gale  By the middle of the fourteenth century many cartographers felt that there was a sea route to India; ... In 1419 or 1420, less than five years after the fall of Ceuta, a Portuguese expedition under the ... In 1432, Gil Eannes successfully rounded Cape Bojador. ... In 1442, Prince Henry sent Nuo Tristo on another expedition.
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The Famous Voyage: The Circumnavigation of the World, 1577-1580  On August 20, 1578, the ships began to traverse the Strait of Magellan, ... to show it until Cape Horn was rounded by Le Maire and Schouten a few years later. ... and to sail onward, first to Java, then across the Indian Ocean, around the Cape of ... Pett sailed in an expedition sent out by the English Muscovy Company to...
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The Ming Voyages | Asia for Educators | Columbia University  From 1405 until 1433, the Chinese imperial eunuch Zheng He led seven ocean ... He traveled all the way from China to Southeast Asia and then on to India, all the way ... By the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, China had reached a peak of naval ... Both these inventions were commonplace in China 1,000 years before their...
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Portuguese explorers - About Library World Records  Jan 30, 2016 ... Once this point was reached, it opened up the trade route to India ... Vasco Da Gama sailed around the Cape of Good Hope onto the coast of Mozambique in 1498. ..... (the southernmost tip of Africa) in 1488, some four years before, the ..... the voyages of Chinese admiral Zheng He (Cheng-Ho) in the Indian...