Estevao rose to a higher military rank later in his life and finally became a tax collector. Vasco da Gama’s mother was Isabel Sodre, who was from a family of English origin. He served as a knight at the house of the Dule of Viseu. The term 'Da Gama epoch' is used to >describe the era of European commercial and imperial expansion launched by >his navigational enterprise.
1460-1524) was the first to >travel by sea from Portugal to India. Da Gama was born in Sines which was one of the seaports on the South-western side of Portugal. Vasco da Gama >The Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama (ca. The exact year of Vasco da Gama’s birth is still unknown, but he was born either in 1460 or 1469. His family was not originally from Portugal, but da Gama did not think of any place but Portugal as his home. In 1497, when he was a 38-year old bachelor, da Gama was selected by King Manuel I of Portugal to follow up the discovery of Bartholomew Diaz of a great ocean east off the Cape of Good Hope. Later, in between voyages, he stayed still long enough to find a woman and marry her. His mother’s family, on the other hand, was English. His father’s family originally came from the southern provinces of Alentejo, which is part of Portugal. Vasco da Gama families were normal families that had intelligent men in it. Vasco da Gama was the third son of the family.
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