How did Vasco Da Gama reach India?

How did Vasco Da Gama reach India?

On July 8, 1497, he set sail with a fleet of four ships, the Sao Gabriel, Sao Rafael, Berrio, and an unknown ship, all of which together totaled 170 crewmen, from the Portuguese city of Lisbon.
The expedition would finally make landfall near Calicut at Kappadu on May 20, 1498

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[Knowledgia]

Hello guys! I see many comments about the term "discover" that was used. Of course, the title is created around Vasco Da Gama, and intends to show from this perspective how he managed to get to India. I also used the word "discover" in the thumbnail, in quotation marks, to show some sarcasm about the term, because the Indian culture and civilization have existed for thousands of years since ancient times, and have existed in various forms of states until contact with the Portuguese. So the title wants to summarize how and in what way Vasco Da Gama managed to reach the territories of India, and in no case does it refer to territories that were unknown until then. Cheers!

[tiagofssampaio]

In Portugal we don't learn that he discovered India, he discovered the the sea route to India

[drevilrodrigues]

India was already known for quite a while at that time what was discovered was the sea path to India, instead of the old route through the middle east. Even in Portuguese History Vasco da Gama is known for discovering the sea route to India, not India itself. Even in the video it is mentioned the Crown sending people ahead through the traditional route first.

[kirtigupta]

In Africa, the Indian traders guided his ship to India because they knew about the sea winds and also has the knowledge about the Monsoon winds.

[DCMarvelMultiverse]

People from Europe travelled to India for centuries. Indian trade embassies were in Rome during Classical times.

[carlosoliveiraoalfacinha]

Nobody in 🇵🇹 says that Vasco da Gama discovered India. He just found a new way, a maritime way, to reach India from the western part of Europe.

[vs]

India was always known.. He already knew India before leaving Europe. He discovered new route to India.

[sayanmajumder]

As an Indian, i always wonder how the Europeans discovered our land ?? We were known to the world for centuries. India had diplomatic relations with Greece. We traded with Egypt, Mesopotamia, china, etc . Chinese travellers had travelled to our land . So how can they discover us . Its absurd.

[reds]

there is an map in france in 1540 show that the portuguese are the first to discover and map the entire australia what an underrated country greetings from england

[aravindhrajgowda]

Even before the Alexander, vasco da gama there was an evidence of spice trade between India and Europe (Rome) by the Roman coins found in the korkai, Muziris, poompunar ports of southern India... There was a detailed account of trade about indian pearls, spices, pepper, perfumes were exchanged with greco-roman wine, grapes, gold in a book called 'The periplus of Erithrea sea'

[ChevyCorolla]

The only way I watch you're videos it's because of you're voice and the map layout for us to see in virtual.
Keep up the good work!

[arjunps]

I'm from Calicut. The Portuguese kept on coming after da Gama's first trip in 1498. The wars went on for next 100 years. The Zamorin or King of Calicut did succeed in pushing out the Portuguese from what is today Kerala. Portuguese power remained limited to Goa till 1961. But the wars with Portuguese were extremely expensive for Calicut. Calicut lost all it's power and influence on the Indian west coast and it led to the ultimate rise of the Travancore Kingdom. Remember that by then the British also arrived and they made good use of the weakened Indian kings to control the entire country.

[nicholasbarber]

he did not discovered india he discovered the route to india

[CreatureDomain]

We live In Kerala, the modern state where Vasco Da Gama landed.

[giorgijioshvili]

"I am not afraid of the darkness. Real death is preferable to a life without living."
-Vasco da Gama

[TiagoEstevinha]

"I am not the man I once was. I do not want to go back in time, to be the second son, the second man."
- Vasco da Gama

[davidmathew]

Vasco da gama went to Goa(a state in India) after the failed Calicut meetings.Goa welcomed him. Even today there is a place in Goa named after him, along with churches. Goa was a Portuguese colony till 1961. How come you didn't mention any of that? Vasco didn't Discover India, he found the sea route to India.

[theicepickthatkilledtrotsk]

It's insane how many importent things happened in that short time period.

[t.saikrishnapatro]

When you said ''Experienced local pilate who knows the sea'' some historians suggests that they were Gujarati traders from today's Gujarat state of India who been earlier before Europeans for trade.

[brianmessemer]

I really like how you compliment Portugal’s “variety of skills.” It’s easy to think this was geographically necessarily so: Portugal sits on the edge of Europe staring into a massive, then-unknown ocean. Of course they gravitated towards exploring. But then I thought, no, their geographical position is not deterministic. Thinking about Japan as the Asian analogue to Portugal - on the edge of that other, even vaster ocean - the Japanese did not develop into the explorers the way Europeans did. Japan, for most of its history, looked inward onto itself for its economic and cultural needs, whereas the European nations looked outward. I’m sure the European nations’s close proximity to each other, which bred rivalry and competition for resources, is a major factor in the difference, but it’s still interesting to notice that the East Asian societies never cultivated exploration as a cultural trait.