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Vasco Da Gama and Africa: An Era of Mutual Discovery by Northrup
Vasco Da Gama and Africa: An Era of Mutual Discovery by Northrup
david northrup
Boston College
n late May 1498, ten and a half months after leaving Lisbon, the Portuguese expedition led by Vasco da Gama reached the Indian port of Calicut, just a few weeks before Christopher Columbus first made contact with the American mainland while on his third transAtlantic voyage. As Daniel Boorstin has pointed out, Vasco da Gamas much longer and technically more difficult voyage had far greater immediate significance than the celebrated series of voyages by Columbus.1 The successful culmination of decades of systematic exploration, da Gamas expedition opened up a practical and highly profitable new all-water route around Africa to Asia, whereas Columbuss ill-conceived ventures failed to achieve their objective of finding a direct route across the Atlantic to the riches of the Indian Ocean trade. The long-term consequences of da Gamas feat were also noteworthy. A. J. R. Russell-Wood suggests that da Gama launched a new era as momentous as that heralded by the Columbus landfall in the Bahamas.2 Other historians contend that da Gamas voyage was actually of much greater importance historically than Columbuss discovery of the Americas, since, along with Pedro lvares Cabrals discovery of
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Globalization from Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama and Ferdinand Magellan until today
by Eric Toussaint
21 December 2021In this study, Ãric Toussaint covers the period from the 15th to the 21st century, focusing on the dramatic effects of capitalist globalisation.
The beginning of Globalization goes back to the outcomes of the first voyage of Christopher Columbus that brought him, on October 1492, to the shore of an island in the Caribbean Sea. [1] It was the starting point of a brutal and bloody intervention of European sea powers in the history of American peoples, a region of the world that had, up to then, remained insulated from regular relationships with Europe, Africa and Asia. The Spanish conquistadors and their Portuguese, British, French and Dutch counterparts [2]together conquered the whole geographical area, commonly known as the Americas [3], by causing the death of the vast majority of the indigenous population in order to exploit the natural resources (in particular gold and silver) [4]. Simultaneously, European powers started the conquest of Asia. Later on, they completed their domination in Australia and finally Africa.
In 1500, just at the beginning of the brutal intervention of the Spaniards and the Portuguese in C