The reached a compromise between the two kingdoms of Spain and Portugal. However, as the conflict got worse, both countries realized the huge harm to their economy. Christopher Columbus pleaded with his friend Nicolas who was the Prince of the Spanish Kingdom to release his friend from the prison, but the king was unwilling to release him. During this time, Columbus realized his friend Vasco da Gama was in prison in Spain. Not for long after this, a conflict broke out between the two countries for dominance over trade & the discovery of sea routes. Some years later, Vasco da Gama had to go back to his country Portugal. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Telegram.Christopher Columbus was born in the Republic of Geneva in Italy in 1451 and Vasco da Gama was born in 1469 in Sines in Portugal.Ĭhristopher Columbus and Vasco Da Gama were of two different countries but grew up studying together in Seville in Spain and became good friends. Read all the Latest News, Breaking News and Coronavirus News here. It began the European colonisation of India. He then left India in Aug 1498 but changed the face of the subcontinent as it laid the stone of the Age of Discovery. Da Gama could not establish a good relationship with the King of the Zamorin as he refused to pay the routine customs duties for trade. On May 20, 1498, da Gama arrived at the Kappad, near Kozhikode, which was then part of the Kingdom of the Zamorin (Samuthiri Raja) of Calicut. Then, it reached onto Mozambique and later anchored at Malindi, East Africa. The fleet left from Lisbon on Jand was planned to go around the African continent to reach India. However, a few years later, Portuguese ruler, King Manuel I sanctioned a voyage to India and appointed da Gama as the expedition’s leader. In 1492, when Christopher Columbus embarked upon the journey to reach to the coast of India, he inadvertently discovered the Americas. European nations looked for a direct route to India as it would establish the monopoly of the country over the spice trade. Earlier, most of the trade happened via land route or through Arab merchants who sold prized goods to Venetians who further traded with the European nations. Many western sailors and merchants tried their hands at discovering a sea route to India, the land famous for spices, wealth and other riches. He is often credited for discovering the sea route from western Europe to the East by way of the Cape of Good Hope.
He became the first European explorer that reached India via sea.
After two years he set sail from Lisbon, da Gama arrived on the Western sea coast of India at Kozhikode (Calicut), Kerala.
On May 20, 1498, Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama stepped foot in India.
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