![]() ![]() Gama headed two of the armadas destined for India, the first and the fourth, the biggest armada, only four years after his arrival from the first one. ![]() These spices were mostly pepper and cinnamon at first, but soon included other products, all new to Europe which led to a commercial monopoly for several decades. Reaching the legendary Indian spice routes unopposed helped the Portuguese Empire improve its economy that, until Gama, was mainly based on trades along Northern and coastal West Africa. Born circa1460,Vasco De Gama was the son of a minor nobleman who commanded the fortness at sines,located on the coast of the aletejo province in southwestern. After decades of sailors trying to reach India with thousands of lives and dozens of vessels lost in shipwrecks and attacks, Gama landed in Calicut on. The route meant that the Portuguese would not need to cross the highly disputed Mediterranean nor the dangerous Arabian Peninsula, and that the whole voyage would be made by sea. coast of Alentejo province in southwestern Portugal, Vasco was born in about 1460. This discovery was significant and paved the way for the Portuguese to establish a long-lasting colonial empire in Asia. he third son of Est v o da Gama, a nobleman who was commander of the. ![]() He is one of the most famous and celebrated explorers from the Age of Discovery, being the first European to reach India by sea. Vasco da Gama Dom Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira, was a Portuguese explorer. ![]()
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