Travel of Vasco –de-Gama
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Vasco- de -Gama was born on 1460.Vasco da Gama was born 1460 or 1469 in Sines, on the southwest coast of Portuga.Vasco da Gama's father was served as a knight of the household of Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu and went on to rise in the ranks of the military Order of Santiago. His father was appointed civil governor of Sines in the 1460s until 1478.He studied at the inland town of Évora, where he learned mathematics and navigation .IHe studied under the astronomer Abraham Zacuto. Around 1480, da Gama followed his father and joined the Order of Santiago. The master of Santiago was Prince John. In 1492, John II dispatched da Gama on a mission to the port of Setúbal.But he and by going round the African Continent ultimately reached India in 1498 A.D. He landed at the Indian port of Calicut.
He was the first European to reach India by sea.He was linking Europe and Asia for the first time by ocean .This discovery was significant and opened the way for an age of global imperialism .
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