Hello guys! I see many comments about the term "discover" that was used. Of course, the title is created around Vasco Da Gama, and intends to show from this perspective how he managed to get to India. I also used the word "discover" in the thumbnail, in quotation marks, to show some sarcasm about the term, because the Indian culture and civilization have existed for thousands of years since ancient times, and have existed in various forms of states until contact with the Portuguese. So the title wants to summarize how and in what way Vasco Da Gama managed to reach the territories of India, and in no case does it refer to territories that were unknown until then. Cheers!
please be more respective and address the region as south asia or indian subcontinent as that acknowledges the other countries that make it up. India was a country in 1947 the region should be addressed properly as otherwise you are strereotyping all south asians to all be indian and not respect their individual culture
Thanks to.Bartholomiew Diaz who discovered the Cape of Good Hope and Vasco Dagama sailed through this sea route and reached Calicat, Southern India. He then made trading deals with the Zamorin the ruler of Calicat. At that time spices were in great demand in Europe. Hence, Vaso Dagama is credited for.following up what was.discovered by his peer and completed the exploration to the East by reaching India. This discovery.later.helped.Alfonso D' Alburquer to.capture Malacca in 1511.and established Portugese rule in the.Malayan Peninsula.
India was already known for quite a while at that time what was discovered was the sea path to India, instead of the old route through the middle east. Even in Portuguese History Vasco da Gama is known for discovering the sea route to India, not India itself. Even in the video it is mentioned the Crown sending people ahead through the traditional route first.
Yes, Portugal is overrated. The Romans traded around Somalia before Portugal was born. Alexander's men were the first Europeans in the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean. See my series proving that the British Empire is even more overrated.
@@scintillam_dei Yes, the tiny nation th circumnavigate the world and explored first the most of it, following by creating one of the largest empires in history is totaly overrated.
Oh I see you retracted your claim that all of that empire wealth building was just cuz the good Christian king needed to find his good good Christian brothers in India? Not to get rich off of trading. Who goes to this trouble on a RUclips comment? Dr evil Rodrigues I guess. Lol. Grow UP.
@@bydlaq Spain was first to circumnavigate the world, liar. Magellan died in Filipinas. He failed to go around the world. If you go to the fridge a thousand times, does that mean you ran a marathon? No. So you can't add up separate unrelated trips to make a single circumnavigation. One of hte largest? Well, yes, if you count oceans, which only rational people do. I'm planning a video proving that Portugal's empire was bigger than the Mongol, since the Indian Ocean was monopolized by Portugal. But Portugal is overrated for supposedly discovereing that the Indian Ocean is connected to the Atlantic. Eratosthenes of antiquity already knew that! Romans sailed in northeastern Africa long before Portugal was born. Alexander's men were the first in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf from Europe. Marco Polo knew about Japan, China, Southeast Asia (including Filipinas, so I'm not a hypocrite), and more, before Portugal got there. Carthage went around western AFrica first. Zheng He and Arabs before him, were in eastern Africa first. Very, EXCEEDINGLY overrated. You were just willing stepping stones for the British who would steal your entire rade routes, and kick you out of Africa. That's what you get for siding with those racist pirates isntead of joining Iberian brothers, you selfish traitors.
@@sheetalgupta866 even before Alexander there was an evidence of spice trade between India and Rome by the Roman coins found in the korkai, Muziris, poompunar ports of southern India... There was a detailed account of trade about indian pearls, spices, pepper, perfumes were exchanged with greco-roman wine, grapes, gold in a book called 'The periplus of Erithrea sea'
@@Augustus_Imperator Marco Polo didn't make his trip along the south atlantic route (Atlantic ocean - Cabo of Good Hope - Indian ocean). This route was navigated for the first time by Vasco da Gama and ir wasn't an easy journey: storms, accompanied by strong winds, subtropical anticyclone, extratropical cyclones. The south atlantic was known as "Dark sea". When he cross the Cape of Storms (Cape of Good Hope) he had to face the Indian monsoon. In Roman times, the Earth was believed to be flat and in Marco Polo's time as well.
As an Indian , i always wonder how the Europeans discovered our land ?? We were known to the world for centuries. India had diplomatic relations with Greece. We traded with Egypt, Mesopotamia , china , etc . Chinese travellers had travelled to our land . So how can they discover us . Its absurd.
No one say they discover you, only some people speaking nonsense, people want to get to you, they allready know where you were. America was discover because people was trying to reach you.
Europeans knew India. They traded spices and other products with Asian countries, but those products came to Europe via mediterranean trade route. Vasco da Gama sailed across the Atlantic and the Indian oceans to reach India. Vasco da Gama navigation made it possible to reach India by this new oceanic trade route.
there is an map in france in 1540 show that the portuguese are the first to discover and map the entire australia what an underrated country greetings from england
My series "The British Empire Was NOT The Biggest" proves that the Spanish were in Australia before the British, although the Dutch and Portuguese were there first. See also my video "How the Bible explains Kangaroos in Australia."
Even before the Alexander, vasco da gama there was an evidence of spice trade between India and Europe (Rome) by the Roman coins found in the korkai, Muziris, poompunar ports of southern India... There was a detailed account of trade about indian pearls, spices, pepper, perfumes were exchanged with greco-roman wine, grapes, gold in a book called 'The periplus of Erithrea sea'
They had route through Arabian peninsula . But when that route is blocked by Ottoman Empire, Europeans discovered way out around africa to enter India.
I'm from Calicut. The Portuguese kept on coming after da Gama's first trip in 1498. The wars went on for next 100 years. The Zamorin or King of Calicut did succeed in pushing out the Portuguese from what is today Kerala. Portuguese power remained limited to Goa till 1961. But the wars with Portuguese were extremely expensive for Calicut. Calicut lost all it's power and influence on the Indian west coast and it led to the ultimate rise of the Travancore Kingdom. Remember that by then the British also arrived and they made good use of the weakened Indian kings to control the entire country.
@@UserHandle454 Immature ? This guy was hustling and fighting for spices thousands of miles away from his home in an unprecedented and dangerous manner. He maybe be violent and brutal but he wasn't immature. You're indian lmao. Help me . My computer has virus . 😂😂
When you said ''Experienced local pilate who knows the sea'' some historians suggests that they were Gujarati traders from today's Gujarat state of India who been earlier before Europeans for trade.
Vasco da gama went to Goa(a state in India) after the failed Calicut meetings.Goa welcomed him. Even today there is a place in Goa named after him, along with churches. Goa was a Portuguese colony till 1961. How come you didn't mention any of that? Vasco didn't Discover India, he found the sea route to India.
@@xx_xx8684 Nothing. Vasco had no role in Goa. 10 years later, Goa was annexed from Bijapur Sultanate by Portugese. They persecuted Muslims on large scale. But they married local women and settled as landlords. Built new irrigation, roads, new crops like plantations coconut, cashew etc..
The deceased Portuguese explorer Vasco Da Gama sir was bold in trying to do trade business of spices with India despite failed missions with the King Of Calicut which ended in a war and still did not give up on doing so till his death,good friends!!!I salute him for short period of time in travelling to India through the sea passing by the regions of Africa for several times which was no feat at all just to fulfill his spice business with the country's government,good friends!!!REST IN PEACE VASCO DA GAMA SIR,WE WILL AND MUST NEVER EVER FORGET YOU IN THIS WORLD AND OTHER PLANETS!!!🙏🇵🇹
And we won't forget his atrocities done here for greeting him at the end and attacking a small kingdom inside an empire whose only business with sea is to trade and not war
@@anzarm.a8547 Good friend,I know and please do not be worried because,he was actually being mistreated too many times which made him to react in a way that he could not control his anger!!!
It's more amazing that the Bible prophesied that 10 European empires would conquer the world, and they would have Roman roots. See DaniEl's pertinent scrolls.
I really like how you compliment Portugal’s “variety of skills.” It’s easy to think this was geographically necessarily so: Portugal sits on the edge of Europe staring into a massive, then-unknown ocean. Of course they gravitated towards exploring. But then I thought, no, their geographical position is not deterministic. Thinking about Japan as the Asian analogue to Portugal - on the edge of that other, even vaster ocean - the Japanese did not develop into the explorers the way Europeans did. Japan, for most of its history, looked inward onto itself for its economic and cultural needs, whereas the European nations looked outward. I’m sure the European nations’s close proximity to each other, which bred rivalry and competition for resources, is a major factor in the difference, but it’s still interesting to notice that the East Asian societies never cultivated exploration as a cultural trait.
East Asian societies did not need exploration as they were abundant with natural resources, cotton and silk for textiles, spices and a booming economy facilitated by trade and handicrafts.
@@MrChickenchow not true. Some were rich in resources, like China which had always been massive in size, and an empire in some shape or another for thousands of years, but not all Asian nations were that wealthy in resources. Japan was likely behind technologically because it didn't become a truly centralized state until much later, and once Japan did that they did expand further into the Pacific Rim, colonizing several distant archipelagos, many of which they ended up losing to the US after WW2.
Why for Japan's fault you are judging entire all Eastern civilizations India discovered South East Asia and China first for centuries when Europeans didn't even knew there's something Easwards than India India was already trading with West and Eastern lands both
Interesting video, although with some very basic mistakes (the King of Vasco da Gama was Manuel I, not John II, as he had died in 1495, and Vasco da Gama was actually elected viceroy of India by King John III), but the most important achievement of his voyage is not mentioned here; the first inter-oceanic voyage in human history. Up until that point, it was believed that inter-oceanic travel was virtually impossible. When Vasco da Gama arrived at the Indian Ocean, the Arabs, who had been sailing in that Ocean for hundreds of years before the Portuguese arrived there, were surprised to see them entering from the Atlantic. This massive feat of navigation changed the view of the world, and it proved that oceans could be sailed from one another. This allowed the Portuguese to be the first people to establish global maritime trade routes. By 1514, the Portuguese had managed to establish sea routes between Europe, West Africa, Canada, Brazil, East Africa, around to the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, China and SE Asia, whilst the Spanish and Italian navigators for instance, only knew how to navigate between Europe and America. It was thanks to this voyage, that other future European voyages were made possible; for instance, the Spanish were only able to sail to Asia thanks to Magellan, who showed how to do inter-oceanic travel via the Pacific. Without the expertise of a Portuguese navigator (who were the only ones qualified for inter-oceanic travel), they would have never participated in the first circumnavigation of the world, and the same goes for the Dutch and English, who were only able to sail to Asia 100 years later thanks to maps they got from the Portuguese. It’s a shame that there seem to be some haters here spreading lies about this voyage. It was a groundbreaking voyage that allowed world travel to be made possible via sea, and ultimately connected the western hemisphere to the eastern hemisphere for the first time via a direct line, bypassing the middle East and the Red sea. It also greatly expanded the knowledge Europeans had of India and Asia as a whole. People claim here that India was already known, but in reality, the knowledge Europeans had of India and Asia as a whole was still very primitive. In 1415, date which kickstarted the Portuguese expansion, the most up to date map of the world done in Europe was the Italian de Virga world map, which looked something like this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Virga_world_map#/media/File:DeVirgaDetail.jpg As you can see, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, India and the Indian Ocean, as well as Asia, are practically unrecognizable. Despite Marco Polo's voyages to the far East, it was still a rather unknown continent. Africa was believed to end in Western Sahara, and they still believed that the garden of Eden was somewhere hidden in it, and Asia was believed to be a continent with a completely different shape and size. As for the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, they were both considered to be unsalaible from one another, since Europeans believed that the lands below the Equator were too hot because of the sun. Fast forward to 1502, and the world now looked like this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantino_planisphere#/media/File:Cantino_planisphere_(1502).jpg This is called the Cantino map, which is the name of the Italian spy who stole the official map from Lisbon. This is considered to be the first precursor map of the modern world, done by the Portuguese explorations and navigations. Almost everything to the east of the Tordesillas map was cartographed by the Portuguese, which for the first time in human history started to show Africa, Asia, the Atlantic and Indian Ocean closer to the size and shape that we now know of them today, except for eastern Asia which the Portuguese would arrive in 1509. This is yet another important piece of information that is widely unknown in the world, and the true extent of the knowledge of the world was only possible thanks in part to the voyage of Vasco da Gama. A lot of references seem to be made to highlight the fact that other voyages of exploration had been made before, by Romans, Greeks, Arabs, Chinese, etc, but take into account that the Portuguese explorations were the first to revolutionize the knowledge of the world from the medieval view to the modern view, and brought more knowledge to Europe of Africa, India, China, Japan, South East Asia, the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean, than all previous explorations in world history combined.
Exactly. King João II (John II) appointed Estevão da Gama, Vasco's father, as the fleet's leader, but as both died before thr trip, it was the new king, Manuel I, who appointed Vasco da Gama for the task.
Discovered!?? Wow.. Some people really have a huge sense of their own culture! India has been around and thriving for thousands of years before anyone mentioned in this video. India traded vigorously with Persia, Central Asia and even China before it was 'discovered'. Lol
Yes, Europeans traded with Asians through the Mediterranean sea for a long time. Vasco da Gama was the first navigator to navigate along the south Atlantic, Cape of Good Hope and Indian ocean to reach India (Calecute). This new route is called Cape route.
I have a question. In my history book its written that after Vasco Da Gama discovered the sea route to India the portugeuse strated setting up trading bases on the coast? When did that happen
Pretty much imidiatly after in cabral trip he erected a fort in cochin The portuguese were fortifying the African coast for decades before arriving in india
People like to use quotes around “Discover” like it’s a joke or funny. It was discovered for Europe. They didn’t know it existed before therefore they discovered it
No, they knew about India. He never discovered anything except maybe a Cape lmfao Using that argument for something like the Pacific Islands, ok technically correct. But an E-W land trade route has been established for over 2000 years at that point
Indian discovered vasco da gama. People will always say vasco da gama discovered india but that is not true ... You people should think twice before any comment you make... 😂
You didn't watch the video.🙄 Europe traded with Asians for a long time by the Mediterranean sea, not by route sailed by Vasco da Gama: Atlantic ocean, Cape of Good Hope and Indian ocean.
How was India discovered is such a wrong caption. Europeans already knew India existed. It should be how did Europeans found a new sea route to India. Arabs and Turks already knew the sea route btw
Arabs and Turks knew and traded with Europeans via Mediterranean sea route not via Vasco da Gama route: south Atlantic, Cape of Good Hope and Indian ocean.
The Portugese were the most influential European power in India for 100 years from 1500 - 1600. Almeida's Cartage system gave them the control over Indian Ocean and Arabian sea. They had the strongest navy on the world at the time. They annexed Goa in 1510 from Bijapur Sultanate and they controlled almost all port cities in the Western coast from Malabar to Gujrat at some point of time. They initially supported Bahadur Shah of Gujrat vs Humayun and later killed Gujrat Sultan in 1537 in a ship. They had settlements in Eastern coast also. But they involved in large scale piracy and slave trade which invited the fury of Mughals who ousted them from Hooghly. Later British and Marathas defeated then everywhere. Interesting point to note- Bombay was given as dowry by the Portuguese to the British when Portuguese Princess was married to Britain.
Bombay and Ceylon (Sri Lanka), that was in fact how the British first got their access to India, and because they had access to much more manpower since they were a larger nation with more subjects, they were able to do what Portugal couldn't.
Vasco da Gama's sea route was beneficial for the Europeans but a huge disruption for the Asians where they will be looted and colonized by the Europeans
@@emperoremyhriv4968 yeah,but the thing is economically we were stronger wayy stronger but you had technology in gunpowder better than us.... GUNS and that's one of the main reasons south Asia and east asia fell
@@emperoremyhriv4968 and also I think right now is the downfall of Europe and possibly the USA but overall the west is slowly going down while the east eg china is going strong. China was weak in the old days but now is strong
World's course had changed just to find the land of spices, Calicut (Kerala). Another guy found America, which lead to the birth of a superpower.That guy too was in search of India's spice crown.
Well, thanks for the video, first of all... Just one historical incorrection: the voyage to India was ordered by king D. Manuel I... In Portugal we learn in school that Vasco da Gama discovered the sea route to India. This was a very impressive nautic achievement... it was the first historical nautic voyage to went deep in south Atlantic sea... for decades the portuguese study the south skies in order to discover a new way of orientation in the southern hemisphere... Bartolomeu Dias made his voyage always near the coast, wind the winds against him... best regards
Europe traded with india/ Asia for a long time by the Mediterranean route. The voyage of Vasco da Gama was made for the first time by the Atlantic, Cape of Good Hope and Indian oceans.
Fun fact: the local sailor that guided vasco to india was a gujrati trader(indian guy from state of gujrat especially surat). Portugals were weary of arabs since they dominated arabian sea trade(Between Middle east and india) so they needed someone else to trust. Africans were not traders but luckily they found indian guy who lead them
Actual facts: Vasco da gama came to India in 1498 and Gujarat was formed in 1960, . Before that Gujjar the original inhabitants of Gujarat belonged to Prathara dynasty and this Gujjar actually poured to Indian sub content from Turkey . Vincient A Smith's 'The Early History of India,' Gujjars are “allied in blood” to the Huns who poured into the Indian subcontinent after attacking the Kishan Kingdom of Kabul. Gujjar is Turkish word.
Africans were not traders 💀 one of the most influenced trader around the word was actually from African coast, Somalis was one of the best traders even romans and Greece thinks that the spices and cinnamon were from somalia which is not. They think the spices were cultivated in somalia but it was trade from India to somalia and then to Roman empire
@@shoolinrecords9298 loodu Gujarat was known as Anarta Kingdom mentioned in Mahabharata too where kurus and sons of pandavas took weapons training...and Gujarat Gujjaras is different, it was known as Gurjatadesh or Gujaratra consisting of today Gujarat, Rajasthan ( baring mewar and north of Rajasthan) and Malwa was also part of Gurjaratra..language was old Gujarati so it's stupid of u to say Gujarat came about in 1960..physical states all came after 1947 these are modem States name but Gujarati and Gujarati language existed before 1960.
@@shoolinrecords9298 that Gujjar and Gujarat are not same and they r not Turkic..what looodu mind u got happens when parents don't teach u the great civilisation of Bharat and u read all leftists books.
@@bnd99999 hahahaha Anarta kingdom was the Vedic period kingdom of ancient India Munna😆The rulers were the father of Manu and Yama know as anarta which means destruction and he built fortress kusasthali which was later flooded by Varuna and the inhabitants died and that time Gujarat was not formed it was called north western provinces with all 3 states clubbed together This Gujaratis ancestors called Huns migrated in 467 CE in the north western part of the Indian subcontinent from Turkic region.
@@g-ps I think I wrote my coment in the wrong coment section 😂. I mean the original coment here is about India, so a completely geographical location. Someone somewhere is still waiting for a response possibly 😂.
Speaking about the conflicts with the Zamorin they actually started with Cabral Long story short they got a deal going and after they got annoyed with each other for some stuff the Arab traders started buying out the spices and forcing other merchants not selling to the Portuguese so that they wouldn't get any Anoyed that the Zamorin wasn't giving him priority buying spices as he had promised Cabral in a big brain moment seized the Cargo of an Arab ship justifying it with whatever deal or treaty he did with the zamorin Meanwhile there a few dozen Portuguese building a feitoria in the Port while this was happening wich Cabral kinda forgot about or didn't think they would be in danger after pulling that stunt I dunno The Arab traders meanwhile gathered into a mob burn down the feitoria and massacre all the Portuguese in the Port save for a few that managed to swim to the ships Meanwhile the rest of the Portuguese in the ships are watching that horryfied and unable to do anything Meanwhile as Cabral is furious demanding justice and compensation, the surviving Portuguese report that the Zamorin guards either stood aside or helped the Arab traders while they were being massacred Meanwhile the Zamorin shows off his leadership skills by going meh whatever towards the heavy armed flett parket in front of his not very fortified city Cabral bombarded the city and massacred the crew of every Arab ship in Calicut That's how the conflicts started After that Cabral went to Cochin whose king was ecstatic that Portuguese blew up Calicut to get they're spices
As a Portuguese, I am fond of my Spanish brothers and sisters. I have visited Spain numerous times. I admire Spanish culture, history, and uniqueness from the rest of the Iberian Peninsula, but I would welcome Spain's decision to join a really Iberian Union. I genuinely feel that if these two countries were united, they would prosper immensely.
Get lost! Castilians can't be trusted! They destroyed every language and culture in the Iberian Peninsula! They renamed the Castilian language to Spanish to force everyone to speak it and forget their own roots! Take your idea and shove it somewhere.
Portugal was such a underrated powerhouse in its heyday. Portugal does not get much recognition because its a small country. Portugal took over some african parts, brazil, part of china, beat spain in a war and competed with the dutch till they finally lost.
This is what Vasco da Gama has written in his journal " I travelled closer to coast and reached Africa in Africa I met a Gujarati trader he took me to Bharat(India)"
Good video. Just a side comment to those unfamiliar with portuguese pronunciation. Pretty much every time a word or name ends with "ao" ("ão") it isn't pronounced au/ao, but closer to an/aon.
You didn't watch the video. 🙄 India was known for a long time. The trade between Europe and Asia was made by the Mediterranean sea, not by the new route sailed by Vasco da Gama: Atlantic ocean, Cape of Good Hope and Indian ocean
Nobody said that Indians weren't a civilization. Europe traded with India/Asia for a long time by the Mediterranean sea, not by the Vasco da Gama route: Atlantic ocean, Cape of Good Hope and Indian ocean.
India was well known in middle East route , Gama didn't discovered india just found sea route , even it's said that Gama was supprised to see Indian Gujarati ships which were too large then his Everyone wanted to search India , as India was very rich because of spices and it's popularity in middle East and Europe , and even India was called golden bird , even Columbus set to search India but ended up in today's USA
Also Portugese Colonised Goa for 400 years. Portugese commited many henious crimes on Hindus to convert them to Chritians in Goa. in 1960 our army re-captured it after Portugal refused to give it back to us.
in 1961 India invaded Goa with 50.000 men against 3000 without declaration of war....Goa was Portugal for 450years and India is India since 1947....Why Portugal should accepet to give back part of its own country?
Europeans traded with India/Asia for a long time by the Mediterranean sea route. Vasco da Gama sailed along the south Atlantic ocean, Cape of Good Hope and Indian o ocean to reach India. He was the first who did it. This new route is called Cape route.
@@yashkalkar223 Not hostile to natives, but to native delusions like that worshipping devils like Kali were a good thing. I did a video proving Hinduism wrong, in a debate with a Hindu. The reincarnation-by-karma doctrine blames the poor for being born poor. That's slander. No proof for reincarnation. Hinduism is a scam to keep the poor on the bottom, and the rich on top. I did a series on heretics: Catholics, "Orthodox" and Protestants are heretics. I don't go to any church. I don't buy any televangelist's products. I am not in a scam for the rich. They get nothing from me being a Christian. Only the poor benefit from my religion. The rich just get exposed for exploiting the poor.
Knowledgia's great storytelling made me interested in history more because I thought it was boring during school. Your maps and animations are amazing. Keep up the good work!
To say the natives of East Africa were hostile is misleading as the Portuguese treated them harshly unable to comprehend that they could be warmly greeted by Muslims who knew nothing of the reconquista.
Crusades were a thing. Islam VS Byzantines was a thing. They knew that the religions were always rivals, and had militariy conflicts since the beginning.
@@scintillam_dei You do know that the Byzantines didn't fight the whole Islamic world? The Muslims they met weren't automatically hostile, they would have seen such an approach as detrimental to trade.
@@scintillam_dei islam vs byzantine wtf? It was Romans vs Caliphates, Bylgarians, Norman, Turks Beside the Romans and Muslim power, despite rivalry respected each other. They even had good relation with Ismaili Fatimid. Also the Christian Romans didn't arbitrarily massacre civillians in the way of crusader.
@@mrmr446 I didn't say that Byzantines fought the whole Muslim world. It's obvious that the Muslim world communicated with each other, so they were aware of things going on among neighbours.
I've read somewhere a museum in Lisbon has a map of Kerala, and it is marked on that map where they ditched their golds and assets when they were attacked by British and also they've buried african slaves alive with that treasure as the belief they will protect the treasure from others. The myth kapiri muthappan is based on this story, and also the upcoming Mohanlal movie Barroz is based on this myth. It is said many people went to discover this treasure, but no one ever came back
India was already discovered.He discovered sea route to India he came till Cape Town and there he found a Gujarati sailor who helped Vasco de Gama to reach India this is not told in our history books.
..vasco came as trader and invaded our land..he was devil... He took many life's..and looted. Our precious valuable..belongings.... Facts apart .. we love portugal ..because of 1 man Cristiano ronaldo dos Santos aviera
Vasco de Gama did not discover India. India was already a thriving economy. He just followed an Indian merchant ship to come to India. His contribution to his own countryman was that he found out a sea route for them to come to India.
I've never heard anyone claim he discovered India, only that he discovered the sea route there. The Portuguese had already send men by land as this video mentions so it would be silly to "discover" India if they already knew about it and had even sent men there already.
Mostly Europeanen said we have discovered America, India, not discovered; destroyed. South Indian People already years back trading in peace with Rome, Egypt, America, China, lived till Australia.
@@g-ps oooo k..maybe because they didn't need to 🤷🏽♂️ (well sail the Atlantic anyway) also, Vasco has always been portrayed as this noble hero in text books. They left out a few parts
@@patrickjeffers7864 we would always stay the same and the Earth always would be flat if we continued to live in the time of Roman Empire. Trips like the one made by Vasco da Gama opened new horizons and people began to stop believing in medieval myths to justify the unknown.
@@g-ps wrong..knowledgeable people knew the earth was round in hellenistic(!) times. In fact a scientist from that era calculated the circumference of the earth and was quite close(we have better instruments now).. even in Vasco and colon's time, people knew the earth was round, just the unwashed illiterate masses thought you'd fall over.
@@kingjames3949 It could be discovering if you learned of it independently. For example, I discovered a route to my dwelling on my own even though many others had passed there before me.
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Hello guys! I see many comments about the term "discover" that was used. Of course, the title is created around Vasco Da Gama, and intends to show from this perspective how he managed to get to India. I also used the word "discover" in the thumbnail, in quotation marks, to show some sarcasm about the term, because the Indian culture and civilization have existed for thousands of years since ancient times, and have existed in various forms of states until contact with the Portuguese. So the title wants to summarize how and in what way Vasco Da Gama managed to reach the territories of India, and in no case does it refer to territories that were unknown until then. Cheers!
Oh!!!Alright good friend,thanks for your information and live your life happily and peacefully daily and ever in this world and other planets!!!:-D
No worry guys we got it. But thanks for clarification it does help.
please be more respective and address the region as south asia or indian subcontinent as that acknowledges the other countries that make it up. India was a country in 1947 the region should be addressed properly as otherwise you are strereotyping all south asians to all be indian and not respect their individual culture
No problem guys, great content
Thing is the territories weren’t unknown. It was the maratime path that was unknown
In Portugal we don't learn that he discovered India, he discovered the the sea route to India
Thanks to.Bartholomiew Diaz who discovered the Cape of Good Hope and Vasco Dagama sailed through this sea route and reached Calicat, Southern India. He then made trading deals with the Zamorin the ruler of Calicat. At that time spices were in great demand in Europe. Hence, Vaso Dagama is credited for.following up what was.discovered by his peer and completed the exploration to the East by reaching India. This discovery.later.helped.Alfonso D' Alburquer to.capture Malacca in 1511.and established Portugese rule in the.Malayan Peninsula.
@@scintillam_dei dude wrote an ielts essay on youtube
We love Vasco da Gama and Portugal. Love from Goa
@@Halestem I sure did, and it has more substance than all of your lifetime of shitposts combined which make up essays added up, hypocrite.
@@Halestem fr I'm not reading that shi 😂
India was already known for quite a while at that time what was discovered was the sea path to India, instead of the old route through the middle east. Even in Portuguese History Vasco da Gama is known for discovering the sea route to India, not India itself. Even in the video it is mentioned the Crown sending people ahead through the traditional route first.
Yes, Portugal is overrated.
The Romans traded around Somalia before Portugal was born.
Alexander's men were the first Europeans in the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean.
See my series proving that the British Empire is even more overrated.
@@scintillam_dei I don't know if your channel is a joke or not
@@scintillam_dei Yes, the tiny nation th circumnavigate the world and explored first the most of it, following by creating one of the largest empires in history is totaly overrated.
Oh I see you retracted your claim that all of that empire wealth building was just cuz the good Christian king needed to find his good good Christian brothers in India? Not to get rich off of trading. Who goes to this trouble on a RUclips comment? Dr evil Rodrigues I guess. Lol. Grow UP.
@@bydlaq Spain was first to circumnavigate the world, liar. Magellan died in Filipinas. He failed to go around the world.
If you go to the fridge a thousand times, does that mean you ran a marathon? No. So you can't add up separate unrelated trips to make a single circumnavigation.
One of hte largest? Well, yes, if you count oceans, which only rational people do. I'm planning a video proving that Portugal's empire was bigger than the Mongol, since the Indian Ocean was monopolized by Portugal.
But Portugal is overrated for supposedly discovereing that the Indian Ocean is connected to the Atlantic.
Eratosthenes of antiquity already knew that!
Romans sailed in northeastern Africa long before Portugal was born.
Alexander's men were the first in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf from Europe.
Marco Polo knew about Japan, China, Southeast Asia (including Filipinas, so I'm not a hypocrite), and more, before Portugal got there.
Carthage went around western AFrica first.
Zheng He and Arabs before him, were in eastern Africa first.
Very, EXCEEDINGLY overrated.
You were just willing stepping stones for the British who would steal your entire rade routes, and kick you out of Africa. That's what you get for siding with those racist pirates isntead of joining Iberian brothers, you selfish traitors.
In Africa, the Indian traders guided his ship to India because they knew about the sea winds and also has the knowledge about the Monsoon winds.
It's the Swahili from Malindi on the contrary
@@collinswainoga2710 Gujarati Captain Abdul Majid
Yes, i heard about the name of a sailor who guided vascodagama to land on Calicut.
Which country in south of Africa Indians were trading with?
@@jyothishkv i guess it was Kenya (malindi port) where the Indians met Vasco da Gama
Nobody in 🇵🇹 says that Vasco da Gama discovered India. He just found a new way, a maritime way, to reach India from the western part of Europe.
Funny, cuz Europeans had already known India for a long time
@@parisan9985 because of alexender ??
@@sheetalgupta866 even before Alexander there was an evidence of spice trade between India and Rome by the Roman coins found in the korkai, Muziris, poompunar ports of southern India... There was a detailed account of trade about indian pearls, spices, pepper, perfumes were exchanged with greco-roman wine, grapes, gold in a book called 'The periplus of Erithrea sea'
@@aravindhrajgowda2446 yes yes I know but alexender was I think first one to invade India
Portugal funny country
India was always known.. He already knew India before leaving Europe. He discovered new route to India.
The narration by Marco Polo was widely available in Europe at that time, including full description of life on the west coast of India.
People from Europe travelled to India for centuries. Indian trade embassies were in Rome during Classical times.
yeah this is the discovery of sea route instead of the land route or the Arab gulf route
One of the many things lost with the fall of rome
Then the muslims later dominated the indian Ocean trade with
From india to china
yes, even marco polo in the 1200s went to calcutta in his way back to venice from china
Gujarat and the rashtrakutas traded with the eastern roman empire
@@Augustus_Imperator Marco Polo didn't make his trip along the south atlantic route (Atlantic ocean - Cabo of Good Hope - Indian ocean). This route was navigated for the first time by Vasco da Gama and ir wasn't an easy journey: storms, accompanied by strong winds, subtropical anticyclone, extratropical cyclones. The south atlantic was known as "Dark sea". When he cross the Cape of Storms (Cape of Good Hope) he had to face the Indian monsoon.
In Roman times, the Earth was believed to be flat and in Marco Polo's time as well.
As an Indian , i always wonder how the Europeans discovered our land ?? We were known to the world for centuries. India had diplomatic relations with Greece. We traded with Egypt, Mesopotamia , china , etc . Chinese travellers had travelled to our land . So how can they discover us . Its absurd.
No one say they discover you, only some people speaking nonsense, people want to get to you, they allready know where you were. America was discover because people was trying to reach you.
Europeans knew India. They traded spices and other products with Asian countries, but those products came to Europe via mediterranean trade route.
Vasco da Gama sailed across the Atlantic and the Indian oceans to reach India. Vasco da Gama navigation made it possible to reach India by this new oceanic trade route.
Think the video wanted to say how the naval route was discovered. A mistake on their part
yeah even alexander came here
@@SHIVAMVERMA-rb3nq Not by the south oceanic route.
there is an map in france in 1540 show that the portuguese are the first to discover and map the entire australia what an underrated country greetings from england
Got a source?
It shows the North of an imaginary giant continent not oz
@@julianshepherd2038 did you check the maps they maped it entirely with the french
@@julianshepherd2038 the portuguese and the spanish were using the science and silence until great britain came and dominate the earth
My series "The British Empire Was NOT The Biggest" proves that the Spanish were in Australia before the British, although the Dutch and Portuguese were there first. See also my video "How the Bible explains Kangaroos in Australia."
he did not discovered india he discovered the route to india
Yes, Vasco da Gama trade route was the new route across the Atlantic and Indian oceans.
(the old trade route was the mediterranean one).
Exactly
Yeah no shit dude
same shit
sea route for eupeans. Arabs and Chinese had different sea route
Even before the Alexander, vasco da gama there was an evidence of spice trade between India and Europe (Rome) by the Roman coins found in the korkai, Muziris, poompunar ports of southern India... There was a detailed account of trade about indian pearls, spices, pepper, perfumes were exchanged with greco-roman wine, grapes, gold in a book called 'The periplus of Erithrea sea'
They had route through Arabian peninsula . But when that route is blocked by Ottoman Empire, Europeans discovered way out around africa to enter India.
Rome was after Alexander the Great
@@சுரேஸ்தமிழ் Sorry they came to Kerala Malayalam speaking Kings. 😂
I'm from Calicut. The Portuguese kept on coming after da Gama's first trip in 1498. The wars went on for next 100 years. The Zamorin or King of Calicut did succeed in pushing out the Portuguese from what is today Kerala. Portuguese power remained limited to Goa till 1961. But the wars with Portuguese were extremely expensive for Calicut. Calicut lost all it's power and influence on the Indian west coast and it led to the ultimate rise of the Travancore Kingdom. Remember that by then the British also arrived and they made good use of the weakened Indian kings to control the entire country.
hii bro
We only wanted to trade
Im sure they captured more cities than goa
Exactly 👌
Travancore defeated Portugese and Dutch and Tipu trice. British did not attack travancore because Dutch naval head was Travancore naval head.
We live In Kerala, the modern state where Vasco Da Gama landed.
After Tamil, what's the most spoken language in the southern part of the Asian vagina called India?
മലയാളി ❤️
@@thecreepers3478 Hi Bro
Penalla
കൊള്ളാലോ😃
"I am not afraid of the darkness. Real death is preferable to a life without living."
-Vasco da Gama
Sounds like what a pirate would say.
@@dululjahma6609 a brave man said that: Vasco da Gama.
Pirates weren't brave, they were and always will be parasites.
@@dululjahma6609 A real man .
Says the guy who is immature as a 1th grader 🤣
@@UserHandle454 Immature ? This guy was hustling and fighting for spices thousands of miles away from his home in an unprecedented and dangerous manner. He maybe be violent and brutal but he wasn't immature. You're indian lmao. Help me . My computer has virus . 😂😂
I am Indian
I have not learnt that he invented India
But, i have learnt he discovered sea route to india
Invent?
@@hijack69 we shall never know
The only way I watch you're videos it's because of you're voice and the map layout for us to see in virtual.
Keep up the good work!
Vasco da Gama's tomb was in our state kerala. A few months ago, the Portuguese government took it back from here
Vasco da gama didn't discover India. He only found the sea route to India.
what's the big deal if the title says discovered
@@brineoit's very wrong bcuz megasthanes was the first traveler who came to india
When you said ''Experienced local pilate who knows the sea'' some historians suggests that they were Gujarati traders from today's Gujarat state of India who been earlier before Europeans for trade.
True. Some Gujaratis and Moors were involved in the slave trade between bahmani sultanate and the slave coast near Zanzibar.
Cholas and Cheras were already sea farers. Coins of certain European kingdoms are found in South India and vice versa.
@@greatwisdom2867 These are Malayalam speaking kings (Samuthiri Kovilakam) long after the Cheras and Cholas.
Vasco da gama went to Goa(a state in India) after the failed Calicut meetings.Goa welcomed him. Even today there is a place in Goa named after him, along with churches. Goa was a Portuguese colony till 1961. How come you didn't mention any of that? Vasco didn't Discover India, he found the sea route to India.
What great did he do for Goa?
@@xx_xx8684 Nothing. Vasco had no role in Goa. 10 years later, Goa was annexed from Bijapur Sultanate by Portugese. They persecuted Muslims on large scale. But they married local women and settled as landlords. Built new irrigation, roads, new crops like plantations coconut, cashew etc..
@@xx_xx8684 goa inquisition 🤕🤕
@@xx_xx8684 conversion. 🤣🤣
The deceased Portuguese explorer Vasco Da Gama sir was bold in trying to do trade business of spices with India despite failed missions with the King Of Calicut which ended in a war and still did not give up on doing so till his death,good friends!!!I salute him for short period of time in travelling to India through the sea passing by the regions of Africa for several times which was no feat at all just to fulfill his spice business with the country's government,good friends!!!REST IN PEACE VASCO DA GAMA SIR,WE WILL AND MUST NEVER EVER FORGET YOU IN THIS WORLD AND OTHER PLANETS!!!🙏🇵🇹
Are you trolling?
And we won't forget his atrocities done here for greeting him at the end and attacking a small kingdom inside an empire whose only business with sea is to trade and not war
@@Dhksksjjsjjs I did not even troll at all,good friend!!!
@@anzarm.a8547 Good friend,I know and please do not be worried because,he was actually being mistreated too many times which made him to react in a way that he could not control his anger!!!
@@depekthegreat359 it was just once that they rejected. And why would I be worried for this
It's insane how many importent things happened in that short time period.
It's more amazing that the Bible prophesied that 10 European empires would conquer the world, and they would have Roman roots. See DaniEl's pertinent scrolls.
@@scintillam_dei it's amazing that bible couldn't tell which year
@@scintillam_dei if bible is true then why don't you tell the events from now on . Maybe the next 100 years
"I am not the man I once was. I do not want to go back in time, to be the second son, the second man."
- Vasco da Gama
love from india
I really like how you compliment Portugal’s “variety of skills.” It’s easy to think this was geographically necessarily so: Portugal sits on the edge of Europe staring into a massive, then-unknown ocean. Of course they gravitated towards exploring. But then I thought, no, their geographical position is not deterministic. Thinking about Japan as the Asian analogue to Portugal - on the edge of that other, even vaster ocean - the Japanese did not develop into the explorers the way Europeans did. Japan, for most of its history, looked inward onto itself for its economic and cultural needs, whereas the European nations looked outward. I’m sure the European nations’s close proximity to each other, which bred rivalry and competition for resources, is a major factor in the difference, but it’s still interesting to notice that the East Asian societies never cultivated exploration as a cultural trait.
East Asian societies did not need exploration as they were abundant with natural resources, cotton and silk for textiles, spices and a booming economy facilitated by trade and handicrafts.
Because they had everything they need and they are satisfied with that
Yes the Asians were more human than the thieves from Europe
@@MrChickenchow not true. Some were rich in resources, like China which had always been massive in size, and an empire in some shape or another for thousands of years, but not all Asian nations were that wealthy in resources. Japan was likely behind technologically because it didn't become a truly centralized state until much later, and once Japan did that they did expand further into the Pacific Rim, colonizing several distant archipelagos, many of which they ended up losing to the US after WW2.
Why for Japan's fault you are judging entire all Eastern civilizations
India discovered South East Asia and China first for centuries when Europeans didn't even knew there's something Easwards than India India was already trading with West and Eastern lands both
Vasco Da Gama discovered sea route to India
He discovered sea route not India. Indian had been trading with europe and central asia before him.
Vasco da Gama sailed through the Atlantic and Indian oceans (no one had done it before) creating a new trade route.
He found the sea route to India from East Africa.He settled a pilar in malindi and its called the vasco dagama pillar.
Interesting video, although with some very basic mistakes (the King of Vasco da Gama was Manuel I, not John II, as he had died in 1495, and Vasco da Gama was actually elected viceroy of India by King John III), but the most important achievement of his voyage is not mentioned here; the first inter-oceanic voyage in human history.
Up until that point, it was believed that inter-oceanic travel was virtually impossible. When Vasco da Gama arrived at the Indian Ocean, the Arabs, who had been sailing in that Ocean for hundreds of years before the Portuguese arrived there, were surprised to see them entering from the Atlantic. This massive feat of navigation changed the view of the world, and it proved that oceans could be sailed from one another. This allowed the Portuguese to be the first people to establish global maritime trade routes. By 1514, the Portuguese had managed to establish sea routes between Europe, West Africa, Canada, Brazil, East Africa, around to the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, China and SE Asia, whilst the Spanish and Italian navigators for instance, only knew how to navigate between Europe and America.
It was thanks to this voyage, that other future European voyages were made possible; for instance, the Spanish were only able to sail to Asia thanks to Magellan, who showed how to do inter-oceanic travel via the Pacific. Without the expertise of a Portuguese navigator (who were the only ones qualified for inter-oceanic travel), they would have never participated in the first circumnavigation of the world, and the same goes for the Dutch and English, who were only able to sail to Asia 100 years later thanks to maps they got from the Portuguese.
It’s a shame that there seem to be some haters here spreading lies about this voyage. It was a groundbreaking voyage that allowed world travel to be made possible via sea, and ultimately connected the western hemisphere to the eastern hemisphere for the first time via a direct line, bypassing the middle East and the Red sea. It also greatly expanded the knowledge Europeans had of India and Asia as a whole. People claim here that India was already known, but in reality, the knowledge Europeans had of India and Asia as a whole was still very primitive.
In 1415, date which kickstarted the Portuguese expansion, the most up to date map of the world done in Europe was the Italian de Virga world map, which looked something like this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Virga_world_map#/media/File:DeVirgaDetail.jpg
As you can see, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, India and the Indian Ocean, as well as Asia, are practically unrecognizable. Despite Marco Polo's voyages to the far East, it was still a rather unknown continent. Africa was believed to end in Western Sahara, and they still believed that the garden of Eden was somewhere hidden in it, and Asia was believed to be a continent with a completely different shape and size. As for the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, they were both considered to be unsalaible from one another, since Europeans believed that the lands below the Equator were too hot because of the sun.
Fast forward to 1502, and the world now looked like this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantino_planisphere#/media/File:Cantino_planisphere_(1502).jpg
This is called the Cantino map, which is the name of the Italian spy who stole the official map from Lisbon. This is considered to be the first precursor map of the modern world, done by the Portuguese explorations and navigations. Almost everything to the east of the Tordesillas map was cartographed by the Portuguese, which for the first time in human history started to show Africa, Asia, the Atlantic and Indian Ocean closer to the size and shape that we now know of them today, except for eastern Asia which the Portuguese would arrive in 1509. This is yet another important piece of information that is widely unknown in the world, and the true extent of the knowledge of the world was only possible thanks in part to the voyage of Vasco da Gama.
A lot of references seem to be made to highlight the fact that other voyages of exploration had been made before, by Romans, Greeks, Arabs, Chinese, etc, but take into account that the Portuguese explorations were the first to revolutionize the knowledge of the world from the medieval view to the modern view, and brought more knowledge to Europe of Africa, India, China, Japan, South East Asia, the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean, than all previous explorations in world history combined.
It also caused the first Oceanic War between sea powers, Portugal against the Ottoman Empire, mostly fought on the shores of the Indic.
It was not king John II who sent Vasco da Gama to find the way to India, as it is said in this video, but king Manuel I.
Exactly. King João II (John II) appointed Estevão da Gama, Vasco's father, as the fleet's leader, but as both died before thr trip, it was the new king, Manuel I, who appointed Vasco da Gama for the task.
@@antoniof9756 hence the Manuelan architecture which is beautiful.
Discovered!?? Wow.. Some people really have a huge sense of their own culture! India has been around and thriving for thousands of years before anyone mentioned in this video. India traded vigorously with Persia, Central Asia and even China before it was 'discovered'. Lol
Yes, Europeans traded with Asians through the Mediterranean sea for a long time.
Vasco da Gama was the first navigator to navigate along the south Atlantic, Cape of Good Hope and Indian ocean to reach India (Calecute). This new route is called Cape route.
I have a question. In my history book its written that after Vasco Da Gama discovered the sea route to India the portugeuse strated setting up trading bases on the coast? When did that happen
Pretty much imidiatly after in cabral trip he erected a fort in cochin
The portuguese were fortifying the African coast for decades before arriving in india
People like to use quotes around “Discover” like it’s a joke or funny. It was discovered for Europe. They didn’t know it existed before therefore they discovered it
Well they knew it existed, but yes they discovered where it was
No, they knew about India. He never discovered anything except maybe a Cape lmfao
Using that argument for something like the Pacific Islands, ok technically correct. But an E-W land trade route has been established for over 2000 years at that point
India has one of the oldest civilizations of the world.
@@danielchera9214 no they knew exactly where it was they just wanted to undercut the Venetians and Islamic traders 😂
@@CaptCKernel He discovered the maritime path to it.
In kerala the navy admiral of zamorin kingdom( kunjalimarakkar )bravely fighted against the Portuguesee
@@சுரேஸ்தமிழ் Malayalees
The one guy who made it to India and didn’t get lost going the opposite way.
Love from Kerala India to Vasco da Gama ♥️♥️♥️💚💚💚
but why?
@@riskfactor4a4037 thats the question ?when every person have express their views why u asking questions like it ,just understand people like him
Love for what? Colonization 🤡
@@BenjaminRosh love them for showing a alternative cultre ,than this saffron fassist cultre
@@BenjaminRosh for exposure to world. That's why we are educated
Indian discovered vasco da gama.
People will always say vasco da gama discovered india but that is not true ...
You people should think twice before any comment you make... 😂
You didn't watch the video.🙄
Europe traded with Asians for a long time by the Mediterranean sea, not by route sailed by Vasco da Gama: Atlantic ocean, Cape of Good Hope and Indian ocean.
@@g-ps Spammer Spotted!
How was India discovered is such a wrong caption.
Europeans already knew India existed.
It should be how did Europeans found a new sea route to India.
Arabs and Turks already knew the sea route btw
Arabs and Turks knew and traded with Europeans via Mediterranean sea route not via Vasco da Gama route: south Atlantic, Cape of Good Hope and Indian ocean.
Vasco da gamma ❤love from India ❤️💚🇮🇳
And there's a city in India called "Vasco da Gama" too
The Portugese were the most influential European power in India for 100 years from 1500 - 1600. Almeida's Cartage system gave them the control over Indian Ocean and Arabian sea. They had the strongest navy on the world at the time. They annexed Goa in 1510 from Bijapur Sultanate and they controlled almost all port cities in the Western coast from Malabar to Gujrat at some point of time. They initially supported Bahadur Shah of Gujrat vs Humayun and later killed Gujrat Sultan in 1537 in a ship. They had settlements in Eastern coast also. But they involved in large scale piracy and slave trade which invited the fury of Mughals who ousted them from Hooghly. Later British and Marathas defeated then everywhere. Interesting point to note- Bombay was given as dowry by the Portuguese to the British when Portuguese Princess was married to Britain.
Bombay and Ceylon (Sri Lanka), that was in fact how the British first got their access to India, and because they had access to much more manpower since they were a larger nation with more subjects, they were able to do what Portugal couldn't.
These men were so brave
Indians discovered India. I discovered Portugal a few years ago.
Thsi is because Portugal was expert in maps and know all global territory
Berrio was named after D. Manuel Berrio, a renowned pilot and shipbuilder from the town of Lagos.
Vasco da Gama's sea route was beneficial for the Europeans but a huge disruption for the Asians where they will be looted and colonized by the Europeans
Isn't that the story of the world ? One time , you are weak . The other time , you are strong.
@@emperoremyhriv4968 yeah,but the thing is economically we were stronger wayy stronger but you had technology in gunpowder better than us.... GUNS and that's one of the main reasons south Asia and east asia fell
@@emperoremyhriv4968 and also I think right now is the downfall of Europe and possibly the USA but overall the west is slowly going down while the east eg china is going strong. China was weak in the old days but now is strong
@@emperoremyhriv4968 i mean yeah the industrial revolution also took part i cant deny. and also we are getting out of context .
@@dagadag5599 We aren't. We are talking about the change of power from one civilization to another . Where are you from BTW?
World's course had changed just to find the land of spices, Calicut (Kerala). Another guy found America, which lead to the birth of a superpower.That guy too was in search of India's spice crown.
Actually they were searching for Kerala. But resulted in finding North America and South America.
Well, thanks for the video, first of all... Just one historical incorrection: the voyage to India was ordered by king D. Manuel I... In Portugal we learn in school that Vasco da Gama discovered the sea route to India. This was a very impressive nautic achievement... it was the first historical nautic voyage to went deep in south Atlantic sea... for decades the portuguese study the south skies in order to discover a new way of orientation in the southern hemisphere... Bartolomeu Dias made his voyage always near the coast, wind the winds against him... best regards
Indian Civilization is arguably the oldest in the world, discovering India is ludicrous
Europe traded with india/ Asia for a long time by the Mediterranean route.
The voyage of Vasco da Gama was made for the first time by the Atlantic, Cape of Good Hope and Indian oceans.
Fun fact: the local sailor that guided vasco to india was a gujrati trader(indian guy from state of gujrat especially surat). Portugals were weary of arabs since they dominated arabian sea trade(Between Middle east and india) so they needed someone else to trust. Africans were not traders but luckily they found indian guy who lead them
Actual facts: Vasco da gama came to India in 1498 and Gujarat was formed in 1960, . Before that Gujjar the original inhabitants of Gujarat belonged to Prathara dynasty and this Gujjar actually poured to Indian sub content from Turkey .
Vincient A Smith's 'The Early History of India,' Gujjars are “allied in blood” to the Huns who poured into the Indian subcontinent after attacking the Kishan Kingdom of Kabul.
Gujjar is Turkish word.
Africans were not traders 💀 one of the most influenced trader around the word was actually from African coast, Somalis was one of the best traders even romans and Greece thinks that the spices and cinnamon were from somalia which is not. They think the spices were cultivated in somalia but it was trade from India to somalia and then to Roman empire
@@shoolinrecords9298 loodu Gujarat was known as Anarta Kingdom mentioned in Mahabharata too where kurus and sons of pandavas took weapons training...and Gujarat Gujjaras is different, it was known as Gurjatadesh or Gujaratra consisting of today Gujarat, Rajasthan ( baring mewar and north of Rajasthan) and Malwa was also part of Gurjaratra..language was old Gujarati so it's stupid of u to say Gujarat came about in 1960..physical states all came after 1947 these are modem States name but Gujarati and Gujarati language existed before 1960.
@@shoolinrecords9298 that Gujjar and Gujarat are not same and they r not Turkic..what looodu mind u got happens when parents don't teach u the great civilisation of Bharat and u read all leftists books.
@@bnd99999 hahahaha
Anarta kingdom was the Vedic period kingdom of ancient India Munna😆The rulers were the father of Manu and Yama know as anarta which means destruction and he built fortress kusasthali which was later flooded by Varuna and the inhabitants died and that time Gujarat was not formed it was called north western provinces with all 3 states clubbed together
This Gujaratis ancestors called Huns migrated in 467 CE in the north western part of the Indian subcontinent from Turkic region.
Índia wasn’t discovered America was discovered. Vasco da Gama discovered the maritime path to India
Not even that, the vikings had landed prior to what would be known as the Americas.
@@puraLusa The Atlantic north, not the south one (the Vikings never sailed the south Atlantic like Vasco da Gama did).
@@g-ps I think I wrote my coment in the wrong coment section 😂. I mean the original coment here is about India, so a completely geographical location. Someone somewhere is still waiting for a response possibly 😂.
That was a very useful video! The editing was very good, and I understood well than other sources like movies and books!
Speaking about the conflicts with the Zamorin they actually started with Cabral
Long story short they got a deal going and after they got annoyed with each other for some stuff the Arab traders started buying out the spices and forcing other merchants not selling to the Portuguese so that they wouldn't get any
Anoyed that the Zamorin wasn't giving him priority buying spices as he had promised Cabral in a big brain moment seized the Cargo of an Arab ship justifying it with whatever deal or treaty he did with the zamorin
Meanwhile there a few dozen Portuguese building a feitoria in the Port while this was happening wich Cabral kinda forgot about or didn't think they would be in danger after pulling that stunt I dunno
The Arab traders meanwhile gathered into a mob burn down the feitoria and massacre all the Portuguese in the Port save for a few that managed to swim to the ships
Meanwhile the rest of the Portuguese in the ships are watching that horryfied and unable to do anything
Meanwhile as Cabral is furious demanding justice and compensation, the surviving Portuguese report that the Zamorin guards either stood aside or helped the Arab traders while they were being massacred
Meanwhile the Zamorin shows off his leadership skills by going meh whatever towards the heavy armed flett parket in front of his not very fortified city
Cabral bombarded the city and massacred the crew of every Arab ship in Calicut
That's how the conflicts started
After that Cabral went to Cochin whose king was ecstatic that Portuguese blew up Calicut to get they're spices
Fun fact, they were vassals to the same empire.And portugese help via horse trading helped the empire to fight off the turks.
As a Portuguese, I am fond of my Spanish brothers and sisters. I have visited Spain numerous times. I admire Spanish culture, history, and uniqueness from the rest of the Iberian Peninsula, but I would welcome Spain's decision to join a really Iberian Union. I genuinely feel that if these two countries were united, they would prosper immensely.
Get lost! Castilians can't be trusted! They destroyed every language and culture in the Iberian Peninsula! They renamed the Castilian language to Spanish to force everyone to speak it and forget their own roots! Take your idea and shove it somewhere.
No, they irreversibly destroyed the Portuguese empire
It's better we pass that one. We're better off as just allies and brothers.
He just discovered a new route to India. He didn't discover India itself.
You know in South India, a sailor is known (in India) for sailing to Iberia around 2000BC?
Cholan emperor met emirate of granada diplomats in the 13th century
@@mint8648 Chola empire died in 13th century.
@@ವರುಣ್ರಾಜು chola empire died around the 1260s, they met granadans in the 1210s
Love from Calicut ❤️.
India was not discovered. Sea route to India was discovered
thats how Portugal put an end to medieval spice trade
Portugal was such a underrated powerhouse in its heyday. Portugal does not get much recognition because its a small country. Portugal took over some african parts, brazil, part of china, beat spain in a war and competed with the dutch till they finally lost.
In its heyday Portugal wasn't underrated in any way. And Portugal didn't lose to the dutch in fact it was basically a tie
Nice video al always man , you should do one about the history of Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
I met taínos from Puerto Rico. They don't know their roots, but their faces tell me who they really are.
Excellent masterpiece work
This is what Vasco da Gama has written in his journal " I travelled closer to coast and reached Africa in Africa I met a Gujarati trader he took me to Bharat(India)"
A Gujarati trader took him to Calicut, Keralam...?
Good video. Just a side comment to those unfamiliar with portuguese pronunciation. Pretty much every time a word or name ends with "ao" ("ão") it isn't pronounced au/ao, but closer to an/aon.
Discover India 😂😂😂 don't make me laugh... India was always there from the beginning... Although India had different names.
You didn't watch the video. 🙄
India was known for a long time.
The trade between Europe and Asia was made by the Mediterranean sea, not by the new route sailed by Vasco da Gama: Atlantic ocean, Cape of Good Hope and Indian ocean
@@g-ps copy paste 🙄
what's the big deal
Vasco Da Gama discovered sea route to India!
Indians were a thriving civilization back then
Learn English first
Nobody said that Indians weren't a civilization. Europe traded with India/Asia for a long time by the Mediterranean sea, not by the Vasco da Gama route: Atlantic ocean, Cape of Good Hope and Indian ocean.
India was well known in middle East route , Gama didn't discovered india just found sea route , even it's said that Gama was supprised to see Indian Gujarati ships which were too large then his Everyone wanted to search India , as India was very rich because of spices and it's popularity in middle East and Europe , and even India was called golden bird , even Columbus set to search India but ended up in today's USA
North Indian plains story
@@sathpuraranges1342 Gujarat is not north India and Gujarat has largest seacoast ,maximum ports since time immemorial
@@bnd99999 In a lot of ways Gujarat is trying to be more north India than north India.
@@ColtraneTaylor , Gujaratis got unique language , culture and identity unlike Urdu North India which has half-Muslim culture.
@@bnd99999 That's the attitude I was talking about. Some kind of insecure Hindu rajya mentality.
I didn't saw the whole video yet. But congratulations for the good work.
Also Portugese Colonised Goa for 400 years. Portugese commited many henious crimes on Hindus to convert them to Chritians in Goa. in 1960 our army re-captured it after Portugal refused to give it back to us.
That's what Christians and Islam did always to india
in 1961 India invaded Goa with 50.000 men against 3000 without declaration of war....Goa was Portugal for 450years and India is India since 1947....Why Portugal should accepet to give back part of its own country?
Discover India?!! .... India was there from the beginning a prominent land... Which was the trading partners of every country.
Europeans traded with India/Asia for a long time by the Mediterranean sea route.
Vasco da Gama sailed along the south Atlantic ocean, Cape of Good Hope and Indian o ocean to reach India. He was the first who did it. This new route is called Cape route.
"the natives were hostile"
The natives must have had very wise Leaders.
Xenophobia isnt wisedom
@@yashkalkar223 Not hostile to natives, but to native delusions like that worshipping devils like Kali were a good thing. I did a video proving Hinduism wrong, in a debate with a Hindu. The reincarnation-by-karma doctrine blames the poor for being born poor. That's slander. No proof for reincarnation. Hinduism is a scam to keep the poor on the bottom, and the rich on top. I did a series on heretics: Catholics, "Orthodox" and Protestants are heretics.
I don't go to any church. I don't buy any televangelist's products. I am not in a scam for the rich. They get nothing from me being a Christian. Only the poor benefit from my religion. The rich just get exposed for exploiting the poor.
Hey, anti-Europeans. See my video proving that "Genghis Khan was INFERIOR to Alexander the Great." :-) LOL!
@@yashkalkar223 the wisdom lies in the fact that they were hostile BEFORE they encountered the full might of the newcomers.
@@yashkalkar223 oh that was not obvious to many natives.
Civilization has been here since thousand of years, i agreed 💯
Knowledgia's great storytelling made me interested in history more because I thought it was boring during school. Your maps and animations are amazing. Keep up the good work!
4:05
> Get into fight with locals
> "Cannonball goes brrr"
So Vasco da gam-a died in India 🤭🤣🤣
With malaria
His final attempt on Xmas 🎄 evening was malaria a Xmas 🎅 gift 🎁🤭🙃
Have you already found the cure for that disease?
Vasco da Gama he didn't discovered India
He is just find a long sea ⛵ route
Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job
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Fantastic video, I love your work. Just one comment, as I thought Da Gama's brother died at the Azores Archipelago, not at Cape Verde.
To say the natives of East Africa were hostile is misleading as the Portuguese treated them harshly unable to comprehend that they could be warmly greeted by Muslims who knew nothing of the reconquista.
Crusades were a thing. Islam VS Byzantines was a thing. They knew that the religions were always rivals, and had militariy conflicts since the beginning.
That's why it has ""
@@scintillam_dei You do know that the Byzantines didn't fight the whole Islamic world? The Muslims they met weren't automatically hostile, they would have seen such an approach as detrimental to trade.
@@scintillam_dei islam vs byzantine wtf? It was Romans vs Caliphates, Bylgarians, Norman, Turks
Beside the Romans and Muslim power, despite rivalry respected each other. They even had good relation with Ismaili Fatimid. Also the Christian Romans didn't arbitrarily massacre civillians in the way of crusader.
@@mrmr446 I didn't say that Byzantines fought the whole Muslim world. It's obvious that the Muslim world communicated with each other, so they were aware of things going on among neighbours.
He used google maps.
Portuguese India was so awesome m,just like French India.
Nice video.
He discovered the sea rout to India... Not India...
I think it was King Manuel I not John II who sent Vasco da Gama.
Vasco Da Gama came Indian from Portugal in search of pepper right ?
Nice video. Although the title is very misleading
I've read somewhere a museum in Lisbon has a map of Kerala, and it is marked on that map where they ditched their golds and assets when they were attacked by British and also they've buried african slaves alive with that treasure as the belief they will protect the treasure from others. The myth kapiri muthappan is based on this story, and also the upcoming Mohanlal movie Barroz is based on this myth. It is said many people went to discover this treasure, but no one ever came back
India was already discovered.He discovered sea route to India he came till Cape Town and there he found a Gujarati sailor who helped Vasco de Gama to reach India this is not told in our history books.
Gujarati sailor to come to Kerala .
This is from maritime route atlantic route, not for land
I'm Brazilian, it's funny to hear Portuguese names pronounced this way.
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..vasco came as trader and invaded our land..he was devil... He took many life's..and looted. Our precious valuable..belongings.... Facts apart .. we love portugal ..because of 1 man Cristiano ronaldo dos Santos aviera
I was amazed how much people is those time worked so hard to get to other nation for trade .
Just read the Portuguese national epic, Os Lusíadas, by Camões, for more details.
The title should be how India discovered Vasco Da Gama
Vasco de Gama did not discover India. India was already a thriving economy. He just followed an Indian merchant ship to come to India. His contribution to his own countryman was that he found out a sea route for them to come to India.
I've never heard anyone claim he discovered India, only that he discovered the sea route there. The Portuguese had already send men by land as this video mentions so it would be silly to "discover" India if they already knew about it and had even sent men there already.
Mostly Europeanen said we have discovered America, India, not discovered; destroyed. South Indian People already years back trading in peace with Rome, Egypt, America, China, lived till Australia.
Macedonians, Greeks and Romans were already trading with India for millenia before that guy. Greek curtesans were part of ancient Indian kings' harems
Samrat Chandragupta Maurya married Selectus Nikator's daughter.
Yes, but macedonians, Greeks and Romans didn't sailed across Atlantic and Indian ocean, like Vasco da Gama and the portuguese did. It's a fact.
@@g-ps oooo k..maybe because they didn't need to 🤷🏽♂️ (well sail the Atlantic anyway) also, Vasco has always been portrayed as this noble hero in text books. They left out a few parts
@@patrickjeffers7864 we would always stay the same and the Earth always would be flat if we continued to live in the time of Roman Empire.
Trips like the one made by Vasco da Gama opened new horizons and people began to stop believing in medieval myths to justify the unknown.
@@g-ps wrong..knowledgeable people knew the earth was round in hellenistic(!) times. In fact a scientist from that era calculated the circumference of the earth and was quite close(we have better instruments now).. even in Vasco and colon's time, people knew the earth was round, just the unwashed illiterate masses thought you'd fall over.
Orgulho plos nossos camaradas perdidos . Eternamente gratos pelo vosso contributo
Portugal was the greatest discoverer of all time.
But they colonized after discovering that was bad
They wanted the spices because they were poorer than Indian Kings
Hi there, I'm from Vasco da Gama city Goa India 🇮🇳
How can you discover lands that were known for thousands of years with people already inhabiting the region
You're right. I never found your comment because you did first. Therefore I didn't actually do what I did: find your comment.
@@scintillam_dei Learning of something isn’t discovering. I learned of a new town yesterday, I didn’t discover.
@@kingjames3949 It could be discovering if you learned of it independently. For example, I discovered a route to my dwelling on my own even though many others had passed there before me.
The Portuguese nation a small country with a huge history