 | Edward Farley Oaten - India - 1909 - 306 pages
...chant the praise Of Lusian chiefs. — Camofiu' "Lusiad," 1, Hi.9 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. — Adam Smith.... | |
 | Frederick Tice - Medicine - 1922 - 874 pages
...were performed, and scurvy promptly commenced to appear among the seamen. Vasco da Gama first found a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope in 1497, and 100 out of his 160 men died of scurvy. The first account of scurvy among seamen is to... | |
 | Adam Smith - History - 2008 - 1148 pages
...PART THIRD Of the Advantages which Europe has derived from the Discovery of America, and from that of a Passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope The advantages de- Such are the advantages which the colonies of rived by Europe America have derived from... | |
 | T. W. Hutchison - Business & Economics - 1978 - 376 pages
...523). important events in the history of mankind are, for Smith, 'the discovery of America and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope'; that is, two vast potential extensions of the market (and the second of Smith's greatest historic events... | |
 | Gary M. Walton, James F. Shepherd - History - 1979 - 244 pages
...UNIVERSITY PRESS: SYNDICS LIBRARY ft The economic rise of early America 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. Their consequences... | |
 | M. N. Pearson - History - 2006 - 208 pages
...the Portuguese discoveries is Adam Smith's famous statement that 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' (DK Fieldhouse,... | |
 | Edward Farley Oaten - Social Science - 1991 - 294 pages
...will chant the praise Of Lusian chiefs. —Camoens' "Lusiad" I, Hi.9 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. — Adam Smith.... | |
 | J. H. Elliott - History - 1992 - 140 pages
...non-committal passage into an ex cathedra historical pronouncement: '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'.3 But in what,... | |
 | Peter Minowitz - Business & Economics - 1993 - 376 pages
...whose title is "Of the Advantages which Europe has derived from the Discovery of America, and from that of a Passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope." The discussion of the benefits accruing to Europe "considered as one great country" is in fact dwarfed... | |
 | Noam Chomsky - Political Science - 1993 - 340 pages
...or "our noble ideals," from which we, to be sure, are exempt.2 "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," Adam Smith wrote... | |
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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. 
