Vasco da Gama

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"Vasco da Gama (1469-1524) was a Portuguese warrior and navigator who was sent by his king, Manoel I, to discover the sea route to India that the kingdom had already spent several decades trying to find. Da Gama set sail in July 1497 and finally arrived at the Indian city of Calicut in May 1498. The document studied here is an excerpt from da Gama's journal of his trip; a portion that recounts the Portuguese explorers' arrival at Calicut and the events of their first week when they met the Hindu ruler of the region and began to raise the question of Portugal's participation in the lucrative spice trade.
Following the mission that is described, in part, in this document ,the Portuguese faced great difficulty in finding a way into the trade system of the Indian Ocean region. They were desperate to do so since it was a means of circumventing the ..."

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