The answer before said yesss. Let me clarify that Francisco Pizarro was the explorer who brought down the Inca empire. I get confused between Bartholomeu Diaz and Vasco da Gama, but your question helps. In 1498, Vasco da Gama rounded the southern tip of Africa.
He landed in Claicut.My Resources:Mystery of History (written by Linda Lacour Hobar) Volume IIIen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco_da_Gama lol
I believe it was Portugal, specifically Vasco da Gama.
Vasco de Gama was the first European explorer to reach Asia by sea. Marco Polo had performed this feat several hundred years before, but he traveled over land.
Vasco Da Gama was famous for discovering the route from America to India, around the Cap of Good Hope in the South of Africa.Vasco da Gama is best known for being the first European to sail from Europe to India by going around the Cape of Good Hope in Africa. He began this voyage in July of 1497 and arrived in India in May of 1498. Vasco da Gama was born in 1460 and died in 1524.
its vasco di gama Vasco de Gama on 20 May 1498
Vasco da Gama reached India on May 20, 1498, becoming the first to sail there around Africa.
Vasco da Gama reached Calcutta, India for the first time on May 20, 1498.
He arrived in Kappad near Calicut, India on 20 May 1498.
The answer before said yesss. Let me clarify that Francisco Pizarro was the explorer who brought down the Inca empire. I get confused between Bartholomeu Diaz and Vasco da Gama, but your question helps. In 1498, Vasco da Gama rounded the southern tip of Africa.
He landed in Claicut.My Resources:Mystery of History (written by Linda Lacour Hobar) Volume IIIen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco_da_Gama lol
He landed in Kappadu near Calicut, India on 20 May 1498.
Vasco de Gama
I believe it was Portugal, specifically Vasco da Gama.
Vasco de Gama was the first European explorer to reach Asia by sea. Marco Polo had performed this feat several hundred years before, but he traveled over land.
Vasco de Gama, of Portugal, reached India on May 20, 1498, by sailing around Africa.
Fernao Gomes was the first major Portuguese explorer to enter Africa in 1471 around what is now Ghana. He was followed shortly by Fernao do Po and Diego Cao who both explored further east into Cameroon. Within 20 years Bartolomeo Dias and Vasco Da Gama explored further south and around the cape of Good Hope.