By Richard Worth
ISBN-10: 1604134232
ISBN-13: 9781604134230
In his voyages to India, starting in 1497, Vasco da Gama revolutionized the financial system of Europe. because the first navigator to discover a path to India round Africa's Cape of excellent wish, da Gama gave Portugal the chance to take regulate of the profitable spice routes that were ruled for hundreds of years by way of Italian and Muslim investors. in a single daring stroke, da Gama laid the basis for the Portuguese buying and selling empire and ensured that the area economic climate could by no means be an analogous back. This biography of Vasco da Gama not just offers the lifetime of this well-known Portuguese navigator but additionally describes his impression on international occasions in the course of the sixteenth century.
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Indd 44 8/12/09 2:16:15 PM Portugal Becomes the Center of Exploration 45 During the Middle Ages, spices were a product used only by the wealthy because they were so expensive. It is estimated that 1,000 tons of pepper (bottom left) and 1,000 tons of other common spices were imported into western Europe during the late fifteenth century. Whoever controlled the spice trade became rich; therefore Spain and Portugal became rivals for control of the trade routes to the Indies. Although spices might be scarce, they continued to be traded through Constantinople by merchants of the Byzantine Empire.
Indd 40 8/12/09 2:16:12 PM Portugal Becomes the Center of Exploration 41 After 50 years of exploration, the Portuguese finally reached Elmina on the Gold Coast of Africa in 1471. The Portuguese built a fort, St. George of the Mine, or Elmina Castle, which became the first trading post built on the Gulf of Guinea and, eventually, one of the most important stops on the Atlantic Slave Trade. indd 41 8/12/09 2:16:14 PM 42 Vasco da Gama available in supermarkets and relatively inexpensive. But for many centuries, spices were among the world’s most prized commodities.
This was a major accomplishment for the Portuguese, as now they could direct trade relations with the Far East. His sailors, by this time, wanted to return to Portugal, so Dias headed home. Passing the southernmost point of Africa, where the seas were rough, he called it Cape Tempestuous. In December 1488, Dias arrived home in Lisbon. After reporting on his voyage to King John, the king decided to rename the southern tip of Africa the Cape of Good Hope. Portugal and Castile In his book The Career and Legend of Vasco Da Gama, historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam wrote that there was not strong support to continue the voyages around Africa to India.
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