Explorers And Adventures From all around the world October 2013
Rey 4B
Why do people explore? People explore because they want to know other areas and countries. Also they visit or sometimes conquer and rob things that are useful from local people. Most of the people explored and got new things from other land and became famous for it.
Vasco da Gama 1 • Vasco da Gama was born in 1460 or 1469 in Portugal. • According to a historian, he seemed to study mathematics and navigation. Also he may have studied from an astronomer. • In 1492, King John II of Portugal dispatched him on a mission to seize French ships disturbing Portuguese shipping to Gold Coast in Africa. • In 1497, he reached Cape Verde Island and Sierra Leone. He continued his sail along the Western Africa coast and passed Great Fisher River of South Africa. • Finally he reached the Eastern Africa coast controlled by Muslim like Mozambique and Kenya.
Vasco da Gama 2 • In 1498, he reached in Kappadu near Calicut of India. • On the way back to Portugal, he had many troubles because he ignored the local knowledge of monsoon wind patterns, but he could return with 55 crew of initial 147 to Lisbon in August 1499. Then he was rewarded by King Manuel I of Portugal. • At his third voyage to India, he contracted malaria and died in the city of Cochin on Christmas Eve in 1524. • He is the first European to reach India by sea and he gave Portugal in a major position in Indian Ocean trade.
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