Appointed viceroy of India in 1524, da Gama died a few months after his arrival. In 1502–1503, da Gama made a second voyage to India and brought back trade treaties and enormous quantities of spices and other goods. He was rewarded with lands, wealth, and the title of Count of Vidigueira. The flotilla left Restella, a port on the mouth of the Teja River, near Lisbon. After reaching the Indian city of Calicut on May 20, 1488, da Gama returned home and received great honor. Vasco da Gama, at the age of 28, was sent by the Portuguese king Manuel I on July 8th, 1497, to take his flotilla of four ships and 180 men around Africa to India and bring back spices. Farther north he found a Muslim pilot to accompany him across the Indian Ocean to India. From there he slowly proceeded north along the continent's east coast, reaching the city of Mombasa the following April. In 1497 the Portuguese ruler Manuel I sent Vasco da Gama on a voyage that would follow Dias's route and then continue to India.ĭa Gama left from the Portuguese city of Lisbon, rounded the Cape, and reached the east coast of what is now South Africa on Christmas Day 1497. Bartolomeu Dias was the first European to sail around Africa's Cape of Good Hope and into the Indian Ocean. Vasco de Gama arrives at Calicut at Malabar Coast. Vasco de Gama was considered as the beginner of the sea-based phase of global multiculturalism. Vasco de Gama was the Portuguese explorer and businessmen. Vasco da Gama discovered the route around Africa to India and changed the nature of trade between east and west. Vasco de Gama was the first European to reach India by Sea in 1498.
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