BY: Patrick giuliano

VASCO de GAMA

All about vasco de GAMA.Vasco de GamaVasco de Gama was born in 1460,And died

on December 24/1524.Vasco de Gama was born in sines Portugal in

the town called alemtejo.He was buried in cochin India jeronimos

monastery.

Voyage VASCO de Gama explored many places before he made it

to his first exploration. He stopped in many places near the shore of Africa. Many men died of the famous pirate disease called scurvy. It was caused by not eating enough. But the reason they stopped is because they got the sick out and there was bad storms causing the boat to rock and bump hard. But when he got their he took the same route back to tell the people he has made it to India. They were very glad that he has succeed his long hard dangerous voyage. Others were very sad for the ones that died like husbands of the new mothers. Children were also sad to find out there dads died but know they had new land/new food and a new life ahead of them. Vasco de Gama became very famous for discovering india.

Map of vasco de Gama’s voyage

Discoveries By the time vasco de Gama made it to India

on his long exploration he didn’t have all his men but he did have enough to take a look around the new land India. They found many things like the city of Azores also he found unknown islands all along the African coast. He also found new trade routes from India to sines Portugal. But many fights accrued when he was making new trade routes to India but he did succeed with the trade route’s.

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