my friend Christian said it was the captain Vasco Da Gama that came for trade to the India he was wealthy and all he ever wanted was to be friends with us but also do something very bad eliminate the. It was winter, the weather was calm and the landscape serene. He was on a voyage around the world, commissioned by Elizabeth I of England. With the help of a local navigator, da Gama was able to cross the Indian Ocean and reach the coast of India at Calicut (now Kozhikode) in May 1498. Somedays later they killed someone but it was not an ordinary person it was someone, somene very spacial for Christian and for the other man. Painting of Vasco da Gamas ship Cape of Good Hope history, with Vasco da Gama and Bartolomeu Dias In June 1580, nearly a hundred years later, Sir Francis Drake sailed past the Cape. In 1497, John’s successor, King Manuel I (crowned in 1495), chose da Gama to lead a Portuguese fleet to India in search of a maritime route from Western Europe to the East. Sailing vast oceans with narrow minds: Columbus and da Gama’s disrespect towards the indigenous people During the Age of Exploration in the 15th and 16th centuries, many people from European countries sailed across the Atlantic ocean in search of gold, spices, and other valuable. Why did Vasco da Gama become an explorer? Compare And Contrast Christopher Columbus And Vasco Da Gama. Over the course of two voyages, beginning in 14, da Gama landed and traded in locales along the coast of southern Africa before reaching India on May 20, 1498. Vasco da Gama was best known for being the first to sail from Europe to India by rounding Africa’s Cape of Good Hope. Originally Vasco’s father, Estevao, was going to be given the command of the exploration fleet, but the trip was delayed for many years. However, he died of malaria shortly after arriving.