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Name: Vasco da Gama
Birth Date: c. 1460
Death Date: December 24, 1524
Place of Birth: Sines, Portugal
Place of Death: Cochin, India
Nationality: Portuguese
Gender: Male
Occupations: navigator

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Biography of Vasco da Gama
893 words, approx. 3 pages
The Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama (ca. 1460-1524) was the first to travel by sea from Portugal to India. The term "Da Gama epoch" is used to describe the era of European commercial and imperial expansion launched by his navigational enterprise....


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Vasco Da Gama Summary
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1460-1524 Portuguese Explorer In the last years of the fifteenth century, an explorer set off from the Iberian Peninsula, full of grand illusions and hoping to reach India by going where no European had ever gone before. Though that statement would...
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Gama, Vasco Da Summary
288 words, approx. 1 pages
(c. 1460–1524), Portuguese explorer. Vasco da Gama discovered the sea route to India from Europe and established a Portuguese presence in India, which lasted until 1961. He was born in Simes, Portugal, around 1460. In 1497 King João II of...
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Vasco da Gama Summary
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Vasco da Gama Born c. 1460, Sines, Portugal Died December 24, 1524, Cochin, India Little is known about the early life of Vasco da Gama, who was born around 1460 at the seaport of Sines, Portugal, where his father, Estevao da Gama, was civil governor;...
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Vasco Da Gama Establishes the First Ocean Trade Route from Europe to India and Asia Summary
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Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460) of Portugal is often credited with initiating the "Age of Discovery." This was the term given to the quest of European countries to seek out new lands and trade routes by sea. Prince Henry had...
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Vasco da Gama Information
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Dom Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira (IPA: ['vaʃku dɐ 'gɐmɐ]) (Sines or Vidigueira, Alentejo, Portugal, ca. either 1460 or 1469 – December 24, 1524 in Kochi, India) was a Portuguese...


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The Washington Post
Brazil's Vasco da Gama Is One Up on United; Vasco da Gama 1, United 0
11/15/1998: 786 words, approx. 3 pages
For three years, D.C. United had dreamed of a night like this -- when a world power came to town for a significant match, when the crowd made RFK Stadium sound like a foreign soccer mecca, when United's graceful style was on international display....
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History: Review of New Books
the Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama. (book reviews)
01/01/1998: 458 words, approx. 2 pages
Subrahmanyam, Sanjay The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 400 pp., $59.95, ISBN 0-521-47072-2 Publication Date: May 1997 As the author of this biography aptly remarks, "Few figures in world history are at once as well known and...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Essay Grade: 86%
Vasco Dagama Vs. Bartholomeu Dias
951 words, approx. 3 pages
Compares explorers Vasco de Gama and Bartolomeu Dias . Considers which man contributed more to the age of exploration than the other. Concludes that Vacso de Gama is the better explorer.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Vasco Da Gama
476 words, approx. 2 pages
A brief essay on Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, who sailed along Africa. Details reasons why he felt compelled to explore. Examines his attitude toward indigenous people.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Vasco Da Gama
390 words, approx. 1 pages
A biography of Vasco Da Gama


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