 | Thomas Smith - Civilization - 1803 - 322 pages
...a mortal blow, from which they have never recovered. These were th« discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. The former put Spain in possession of immense treasures; which, being gradually diffused through all parts... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - World history - 1804 - 458 pages
...the Portuguese, excited by what had been done by Columbus, undertook a voyage, with a view of finding a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. The command of this expedition was given to Vasco de Gama, who set sail from Lisbon oa the . ~ gth of July,... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - America - 1804 - 432 pages
...the Portuguese, excited by what had been done by Columbus, undertook a voyage, with a view of finding a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. The command of this expedition was given to Vasco de Gama, who set sail from Lisbon on the . -p Qth of... | |
 | CHARLES MAYO, L.L.B - 1804 - 586 pages
...collections of paintings and statuary. When the course of trade was changed by the discovery of the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, the Italian merchants i / » were deprived of their sources of wealth: and those nobles whose ancestors... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - World history - 1804 - 374 pages
...feelings and his better judgment. . _ In the second year of his reign, Di ' ?" Gama discovered the passage to the '. East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. The enterprising spirit of the Portuguese, first roused into action by prince Henry, as already noticed,... | |
 | William Playfair - Commercial products - 1805 - 684 pages
...mariner's compass, enabling seamen to quit sight of land without danger, made way for the discovery of a passage to the East Indies, by the Cape of Good Hope, and the discovery of America., Those two. discoveries altered entirely the nature of commerce, and... | |
 | Thomas Smith - Astronomy - 1806 - 150 pages
...known in Europe. 1496 The first game-act passed. 1497 The Portuguese, under Vasco de Gama, discover a passage to the East Indies, by the Cape of Good Hope. South America discovered by Americus Vesputius, from whom it received its name. 1 49 8 Lewis XII. king... | |
 | Alexander Annesley - Bottomry and respondentia - 1808 - 308 pages
...superior to other nations, as commerce had at all times flourished most either in islands or the borders of the sea, or of navigable rivers ; hence trade and...the commerce of Europe had till then been chiefly confined, gave place in importance to the open sea ; and the making conquests, or establishing colonies... | |
 | William Robertson - America - 1809 - 382 pages
...• Herrera, dec. I. lib. iii. c. 14. Ifenzou. Hiit. NOv. Ori. lib. i. c 2. VOL. I. S e of opening a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, and soon after his accession to the throne, equipped a squadron for that important voyage. He gave... | |
 | Charles Ganilh - Economics - 1812 - 520 pages
...the care of all, the Hanseatic league left the world an honourable remembrance consoling to humanity. The discovery of America and of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, the abundance of the precious metals which it caused to circulate in Europe, the general comforts, which... | |
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The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind. 
