Western Civilization I / Unit 16 WC1 1504 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Dias 1488, da Gama 1497: Portugal Reaches India
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The idea
Dias rounded the Cape in fourteen eighty-eight. Vasco da Gama reached India in fourteen ninety-eight, the witness's date for arrival, and his cargo repaid the voyage many times over, the anchor's multiple attributed. Cabral claimed Brazil in fifteen hundred.
In practice
The anchor dates the voyage from fourteen ninety-seven.
Where people slip
Portugal went east. Learn the direction before the names.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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