1 jan 1498 ano - Vasco da Gama (Water Route to India)

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A Portuguese sailor (who followed the path of Bartolomeo Diaz), who became the first European to find an all-water route to India just 11 years after Diaz rounded the Cape of Good Hope.

Vasco da Gama started up the East African coast, raiding Arab merchant ships along the way. But at Malindi, in present-day Kenya, da Gama was able to hire a navigator (according to some stories, a Muslim) who knew the monsoon winds and got im across the Indian Ocean to Calicut in twenty-three days. On the return ship, da Gama ignored what he had been told about the monsoon winds; that crossing took 132 days, and many sailors died.

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