 The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind.  The Naturalist's Library - Page 21by William Jardine - 1836Full view - About this book
 | Philip Alexander Prince - World history - 1843 - 776 pages
...the oligarchy was deeply depressed by the change in its commercial prosperity. In the year 1497, when the discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope was made, the European trade with India, which had been exclusively in the hands of the Venetians,... | |
 | Francis Coghlan - 1845 - 996 pages
...East Indies, with which there was no other communication at that time but by Egypt and the Red Sea. The discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, towards the close of the fifteenth century, gave a fatal stroke to the Italian commerce, by opening... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Europe - 1845 - 872 pages
...fatal consequences to their republic, which the sagacity of the Venetian senate foresaw on the first discovery of a passage to the East Indies, by the Cape of Good Hope, actually took place. Their endeavors to prevent the Portuguese from establishing themselves in the... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Europe - 1845 - 852 pages
...fatal consequences to their republic, which the sagacity of the Venetian senate foresaw on the first discovery of a passage to the East Indies, by the Cape of Good Hope, actually took place. Their endeavors to prevent the Portuguese from establishing themselves in the... | |
 | Samuel Perkins - 1848 - 494 pages
...written language. The Portuguese first established commercial settlements in Ceylon, soon after their discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. Their cruelty, avarice, and fanaticism, evinced in suppressing the religion of the natives, and converting... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Commercial products - 1849 - 164 pages
...invention of the mariner's compass, which enabled trading vessels to make much longer voyages, and led to a discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, with the settlements made on the coast of Africa, in Arabia, and in India, affected very materially... | |
 | Samuel Sharpe - Egypt - 1850 - 504 pages
...country, of which continent Abyssinia was then considered to form a part. In 1487, the practicability of a passage to the East Indies, by the Cape of Good Hope, being no longer problematical, the Portuguese sovereign naturally desired to be better acquainted with... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - History, Modern - 1851 - 544 pages
...fatal consequences to their republic, which the sagacity of the Venetian senate foresaw on the first discovery of a passage to the East Indies, by the Cape of Good Hope, actually took place. Their endeavors to prevent the Portuguese from establishing themselves in the... | |
 | Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...Imon-ledce to Ihrir eyes her ample poge, llicli with the spoils of time, diJ ne'er unroll." 3rdly. The discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, which so deeply interested the public mind. -Ithly. The discovery (if America, which opened up a new... | |
 | John Frost - Africa - 1852 - 560 pages
...seemed scarce possible to resist them. What contributed also greatly to the decline of the republic was the discovery of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, in 1497. To this time the greatest part of the East India goods imported into Europe passed through... | |
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