by Da Gama

He also robbed in Arab merchant ships and finally arrived in India, when his fleet had expanded to 29 ships, quickly conquered the land and plundered a large number of valuable goods, and when Da Gama returned to Portugal with precious Indian goods and bought many of the lands that formerly belonged to the royal family, he sent more warships to East Africa and West India, attempting to replace the local incompetent ruler Eduardo Menezes, and obtained his Portuguese territory.

character brief introduction

The youth participated in the war between Portugal and Spain, then served in the Portuguese court. On July 8, 1497, the Portuguese king sent a ship from Lisbon to search for a sea route to India, sailing through the Canary Islands, around the Horn of Hope, through Mozambique, and arriving in Caricut in the southwest of India on May 20, 1498. In the autumn of the same year, leaving India and returning to Lisbon on September 9, 1499. Gama went to India twice in 1502-1503 and 1524, and was appointed Governor of India. Gama navigated India, promoting the development of Eurasian trade. Before the Suez river navigation in 1869, Europe's trade with other countries along the Indian Ocean and China, mainly through this route.

In 1502, Da Gama returned to India on a mission to seek more trade rights. After his third voyage to India, he died of a fever in 1524. Bad blood disease was a disease that killed thousands of long-haulers, and it was not until the 18th century that a way to prevent the disease was discovered. Doctors found that bad blood disease could be prevented on long-haul ships as long as the supply of fresh fruit, vegetables or juices (all containing vitamin C) was guaranteed.

Later historians believe that da Gama was the only successful explorer to pioneer Portuguese maritime trade after navigator Henry, in addition to his first connecting the route of Africa and Asia, his knowledge of politics and war also made Portugal the position of the corner of maritime trade, in Portuguese literature 'national epic', there is a considerable part in the description of the long journey of da Gama.