Andre vasco da gama biography facts

Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese governor and one of the best-known explorers in the time today known as “Age of Discovery”.

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His most notable discovery happened during his expedition where he successfully found sea route to India circumventing the African continent.

He was born around s in Sines, Portugal as a son of Knight Estêvão da Gama.

After the ’s King John II of Portugal formed the exploratory fleet with a task to find the sea route to the distant India. In , Bartolomeu Dias managed to reach the southern tip of Africa, opening the way for the new expeditions to the east.

In the following years, Portugal explorers prepared themselves for the journey to India. New ships were constructed and additional maps were procured from the expeditions that visited India via the land trade route witch was held (and heavily taxed) then by the Republic of Venice.

On 8 July , Vasco da Gama started his journey to India traveling in a fleet of four ships le