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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 was the first to link Europe and Asia by an ocean route, connecting the Atlantic and the Indian oceans and therefore, the West and the Orient.
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Who was Vasco da Gama?
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Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer who followed the same route as Diaz did. But he sailed round the Cape of Good Hope and finally reached Calicut in the western coast of India in 1498 CE. He returned to Portugal with a huge cargo of Indian products. He had thus discovered a new direct searoute to India. Trade relations between India and Europe were established. [Pic. 1]
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Bertholomew Diaz, a Portuguese sailor, navigated the coast line if West Africa and reached the southernmost tip of the African Continent. (1487 CE). He named it the Cape of Good Hope. [Pic. 2]
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