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Which Portuguese explorer was the first person to sail directly from Europe to India?

Posted on 17 April 2009 by

Prince Henry “the Navigator”
Vasco da Gama
Christopher Columbus
Pedro Cabral

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  1. Kate the Great Says:

    Vasco de Gama – reached Calcutta in May of 1498 (left Europe in July of 1497, stopped in Mombasa and Malindi on the way)

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