From a global perspective, Europe was an impoverished backwater imprisoned by geography and affected by a sense of claustrophobia. By the late Middle Ages almost all their information, derived from Marco Polo, was 200 years out of date. Europeans probably knew less about India and China than did the Romans. Rather, this revolutionary moment was more about ending the isolation of Europe. The great civilisations of the East needed no discovering. What were the forces that impelled this leap forward by pioneers on the edge of the Iberian Peninsula? With the hindsight of the 21st century, it is presumptuously Eurocentric to talk about the discovery of the world that got under way in the late 15th century. The Portuguese were in many respects the true pathfinders in the development of globalisation. Yet the historian Arnold Toynbee pointed out that it might more justly be labelled the Era of Vasco da Gama. 2013.If historians can trace the roots of globalisation back to archaic times, it is conventional now to see the early modern age as the critical accelerator in the creation of an interconnected world – the moment when European navigators linked the oceans together and inaugurated what we in the West have come to call the Age of Discoveries, or the Era of Columbus. A long and uncertain journey : the 27,000-mile voyage of Vasco da Gama. "Vasco Da Gama." Modern World History Online. Portuguese Stamp, 1969, Commemorating The 500th Anniversary Of The Assumed Year Of The Explorer's Birth. Map Of Africa And Part Of Asia Showing Vasco Da Gama's Route Around Africa To The East. "Voyage of Vasco Da Gama." American History Online.
Vasco da Gama accomplishments gave Portugal an advantage tothe spice trade world.After finding the sea route he went on a couple of other expeditions.
When he got back to Portugal with only 55 men and half the items he was sent for,But the king did not send him to prison.He was awarded for his accomplishments.Finding that route made it easier ro Portugal to get to India. This is the the route da Gama took to get to India.He took the same route back to Portugalĭa Gama was sent to India to find the best spices they had to offer.The spices were to keep their meat from spoiling because they had no refrigerators. Vasco da Gama's effect on the spice tradeĪbout five hundred years ago the king of Portugal sent four ship to find a sea route to India.They were all lead by Vasco da Gama.
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