![]() ![]() When the king of Portugal received news on Columbus’s discovery of the new American continent, he appointed Da Gama in 1495 as a leader in an expedition to explore additional maritime routes 1. On July 8, 1497, Da Gama’s ships set sail from Lisbon eastward toward the Indian Ocean. ![]() However, because the original East-West trade routes were controlled by the Arabs, European feudal lords, businessmen, and navigators began to risk their lives voyaging through the Atlantic to search for new routes in order to satisfy their greed for gold. Accounts of China and India in the book The Travels of Marco Polo left Europeans to believe that Far Eastern countries are paradises full of gold and treasures. Vasco Da Gama-The First to Arrive in Indiaĭuring the 14-15 th century, the commercial economy of Western Europe thrived and spurred the radical development of foreign trade. ![]()
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