The pilot brought the Portuguese men to the city of Calicut on the southwest coast of India on May 20, 1498.
There, at Malindi, da Gama hired a pilot from India. An angry crowd discovered that da Gama's men were not Muslims, so the crew continued north to Kenya. Mozambique was controlled by Arabs because it was part of the Indian Ocean's network of trade. The coast is still called Natal.īy January, da Gama's crew reached modern-day Mozambique, on the East African coast. They did this because they sailed by it at Christmas. Da Gama's crew gave the South African coast they were passing the name Natal, which means " Christmas" in Portuguese. Vasco da Gama sailed around the bottom of the African continent. No European explorer before him had sailed further than the place that is now called South Africa. On the 4th of July 1497 da Gama left Lisbon with four ships: the São Gabriel, the São Rafael, the Berrio, and a storage ship of unknown name. According to some people's accounts, he was a knight in the 1490s in Sines.
He went to India three times by ship.ĭa Gama was born in Sines, Portugal. He was the first European who went to India through the Cape of Good Hope at the southern end of Africa. On the other hand, his discovery of the sea route to India made possible successful, future Portuguese trade.Ī map of Africa from Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia, published in Basel, Switzerland in 1559.Vasco da Gama ( 1460 or 1469 - December 24th, 1524) was a Portuguese sailor. His gifts to its ruler were not impressive enough. ĭa Gama’s attempt to trade in Calicut wasn’t very successful. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and across the Indian Ocean.
The Latin text in the bottom left-hand corner of the map tells the tale of Vasco da Gama. Dias' discovery paved the way for Vasco da Gama’s voyage to India. Ptolemy had been wrong to think that the Indian Ocean was land-locked. His voyage showed that the Atlantic and Indian Oceans flowed into each other. In 1488, Bartolomeu Dias sailed around the southern tip of Africa (the Cape of Good Hope). Münster’s map on the right reflects the discoveries of Portuguese explorers, Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco da Gama.
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