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Vasco Da Gama Summary
684 words, approx. 2 pages 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
2,042 words, approx. 7 pages 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 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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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...



Featured Essays
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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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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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Vasco Da Gama
390 words, approx. 1 pages
 A biography of Vasco Da Gama


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