For the one that you choose you must create a short biography (life events such as birthplace, achievements and death) (5 sentence minimum) I chose Vasco de gama. Tell me why he as an explorer was important to history. (3 sentence minimum)

Vasco da Gama was born in 1460 or 1469 in Sines, Alentejo, Kingdom of Portugal and he was a Portuguese explorer, he was one of the most successful in the European Age of Discovery and he was the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India. He was the first ever European to find an ocean trading route to India. Vasco da Gama accomplished what many explorers before him weren't able to accomplished and his discovery of this sea route helped the Portuguese establish a long-lasting colonial empire in Asia and Africa. Over the course of his two voyages, one beginning in 1497 and the second one beginning in 1502, Vasco da Gama landed and traded in locales along the Coast of Southern Africa before da Gama reached India in 1498 on  May 20. Vasco da Gama died by contracted a disease called Malaria not long after arriving, in the city of Kochi, India on Christmas Eve in 1524, three months after his arrival.

before there were tanks, machine guns, windmills, and solar panels, the first civilizations emerged that create the history of humanity which provided the larger context for western civilization. uses of weaponry and technology were used very differently in the ancient civilizations than they are today. relating back to the times of the ancient mesopotamian civilization, technology kept advancing throughout the ancient egyptian civilization into the ancient greek civilization, and then finally the ancient roman civilization. as techniques and strategies were past down from civilization to civilization, each shared its own similarities, as well as varied differences. one trait they had in common was to commit violence and economically overpower one another. technology has ultimately advanced due to the knowledge transferred from generation to generation. uses of sophisticated weaponry and devices have created more opportunity for warfare and improvement in the work place. ancient civilizations became more powerful due to the advancements of technology. technology did not only create the use of violence, but it also the economies grow and become stronger, because production of trading goods rose like never before. the rivers, such as the nile, tigris, and euphrates all flourished, as well as destructed civilizations. each civilization had different uses for these rivers, however, some benefited more than others. when analyzing ancient civilizations, there   are things you must understand

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