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The Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India was the first recorded trip made directly from Europe to India via the Cape of Good Hope, in the Atlantic Ocean. It was undertaken under the command of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama during the reign of King Manuel I in 1495–1499. Considered to be one of the most remarkable voyages of the Age of Discovery, it consolidated the Portuguese maritime presence over Kerala and the Bengal Sultanate and that country's dominance of global trade routes.......☺
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Vasco da Gama discovered the sea route to India and inaugurated the Age of Colonialism. It was via the Cape of Good Hope in the Atlantic Ocean that the sea route was discovered.
- Portuguese needed the spices but they were costly because of the trading hassles. It was both risky and time-consuming to fly by land from Europe to India, so they planned a sea route
- The Portuguese were the first Europeans to arrive in India by sea, thereby creating a monopoly on maritime trade between Europe and Asia for nearly a century before Dutch arrived.
- The Portuguese overseas empire was known as "Estado Da India" and its initial objective was to create a monopoly on the trade in Black Pepper and eastern spices.
- By pressuring ships and merchants to pay security duties, the Portuguese people used coercion to make a profit.
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