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Vasco da Gama: Round Africa to India
The primary source that is going to be analyzed in this paper is “A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama, 1497-1499”. Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer and navigator that travelled to the East during Europe’s period of intense exploration in the C15th century, and he was the first person to successfully sailed directly from Europe to India. Explorer Vasco da Gama was born in about 1460 into a noble family in Sines, Portugal (Vasco da Gama (c.1460 – 1524), n.d. ). There was not much information about his upbringing life except that he was the son of the commander of the fortress in the southwestern pocket of Portugal, got accepted to the navy where he learned how to navigate, and later became a reputable sailor. Consequently, he was appointed by the Portuguese king, Manuel, to set off a long journey with the primary purpose to find a direct route to the East. This voyage was undoubtedly one of the most important explorations in the early modern era since the Europeans was eventually able to opened their door to another part of Asia, namely India. It cannot be denied that this discovery and several more had taken place because of Henry the navigator, who had brought together a substantial number of knowledgeable mapmakers, geographers, and navigators to the country in the attempts not only to expand Portugal’s trade influence, but also to find Pester John, the ruler who was believed to control