Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese navigator sailed around the cape up the east coast of Africa, across the Indian Ocean and landed at …………..

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• Vasco da Gama went around the cape and across the Indian Ocean to reach India (Calicut) in ………..
• In 1488, a brave captain named ………….sailed up to Africa’s southern most tips which he named the "Cape of Storms".
• Who was imprisoned and then exiled to the island of Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean, 1,870 km from the west coast of Africa.
• ……….Bartholomeu Dias reaches the Cape of Good Hope at the tip of Africa.
• Prince Henry, commonly called Henry the navigator, was a great patron of navigation in ………………
• ……………the navigator encouraged navigation by establishing a school for geographers.
• …………….patronized by Queen Isaballa of Spain set off on a voyage and reached the West Indies, thinking he had landed on India.
• ……………..along with his volunteers landed in Sicily and annexed the two kingdoms to Sardinia.
• In 1499 ………………landed in America.
• The Portuguese reached China in ………..