Why Vasco Da Gama's exploration was important?

Answer 1

Dom Vasco da Gama was a Rich Portuguese conqueror, always using subterfuge and violence.

In the European Age of colonialism. he was the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India.

This fleet arrived to Calicut in India on 20 May 1498.

After violent negotiations with the local ruler Zamorin he despoiled Arab merchants.

This journey ushered in an era of European domination through sea power and imposed commerce that lasted several hundred years,

and 450 years of Portuguese colonialism in India and Africa that brought wealth and power to the Portuguese monarch to the detriment of Africa and India.

He was richly rewarded for his services of piracy by his sovereign,

being made Count of Vidiguerira and Admiral of the Indian Seas and

receiving pensions and a lucrative slice of the Eastern trade.

Answer 2

The Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama led an expedition at the end of the 15th century that opened the sea route to India by way of the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa.

Answer 3

It was important because, he wanted to prove that the Indian ocean is connected to other oceans and that he could get to India by boat...

I believe this is the answer because I did a report on Vasco Da Gama's exploration.
So....That's the answer folks...enjoy...bye

Answer 4

It wasn't that important. He is one of many that explored.

Answer 5

vasco da gama is just a guy who found the first route to india.i am so upset that i have to study him in 7th grade!