Portuguese India

around 1460 or 1469. And by the time he was around 30, he was commissioned by the Portuguese king, King Manuel I to find a route to the East. His first voyage was ordered by King John II during 1492 and after his success, the new king Manuel sent him on his second to find a trade route to India. By this time, Portugal established itself as one of the most powerful maritime countries in Europe. Working during the same time period was Henry the Navigator…

finding a new route to the East. In 1497, Vasco Da Gama took four vessels in hopes of finding the elusive route to India and the East. Mid-January Gama had to anchor down to help his crewmembers recover from scurvy. He went up the Coast of Africa before stopping on Eastern African shores in hopes of establishing trade deals with the Sultan of Mozambique, unfortunately he could not get the Sultan to agree. Around May or April they finally reached the coast of India after crossing the Indian…

Vasco da Gama Dom Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese navigator and explorer, and the first person to reach India by sea, as commissioned by the king, in 1497. Vasco da Gama was born to a wealthy family around 1460 and 1469 in Sines, Portugal. Little is known about his upbringing, except the fact that he was the third son of Estêvão da Gama, an explorer and commander of the fortress in the southwestern pocket of Portugal. The country was desperate to find a maritime route to Asia in the late…

Bending Bodhi Yoga Studio, located at Franklin Plaza in downtown Dover, newly opened in October of 2015. The three co-founders, Heather Campbell- Hussey, Lydia Garnhart, and Nancy Garnhart have dedicated the new organization to teaching children and adults to feel empowered, confident, and at peace through the eight limbs of yoga. They offer drop in classes for people of all skill levels, including brand new beginners. The staff is passionate about Yoga and the positive benefits it can have on…

future. If Goa had never existed, India today would not be the same. Long before the early 1500s, Muslims dominated the trading scene in South Western India. They had so much economic power they had sway in the local politics. There were many groups and settlements. Some groups were Arabs, others, Muslims from Arabia and Persia. They had their time of infighting. Then, in the early 1500s, the event that sets apart Goa (south western India) from the rest of India happened: Portugal arrived.…

sufficiently Anglicized to use the English language to express themselves” (1). The first of these two conditions, the Indianization of the En¬glish language, began much before the second, the Anglicization of the Indians. With the opening up of trade after Vasco da Gama’s arrival at Calicut in Kerala in 1498, several Indian words found their way into Portuguese and then into English. It was almost another century before Thomas Stephens, a Jesuit priest,was the first En¬glishman to dwell in…

India is a country in South Asia and the country’s origins are rooted in ancient history. The name of the country is derived from the ancient Indus Valley Civilization that was centered around the Indus River Valley. The Indus Valley Civilization, which was known as the Harappa civilization, was located in the northwest corner of now what is known as India. The Indus civilization is one of the three oldest civilizations in the world. India has been long recognized for its vast empires and…

Sons of Portugal Scholarship Essay It all began when the first words that came out of my mouth were unfamiliar to the common American. My father, mother, and brother arrived to America to begin their new life in 1992. They came to provide their children with endless opportunities. In 1998, I was born and my family's Portuguese culture was not thrown into the United States melting pot. Due to my parents limitation on English, Portuguese was my first language. It caused me to lack guidance in my…

Jalal-ud-Din Muhammad Akbar was the third generation Mughal emperor, who was born in Umarkot, Sindh, and inherited the throne of his father, Humayun at the age of 13-14 in 1556. He ruled India for almost 50 years till 1605 during which India went through the most glorious period in its history. His empire saw Akbar grow from his teens and become a wise, strategic leader, who transformed India, and came to be known as Akbar, The Great. During his early years of rule from 1556 to 1560, Akbar was a…

system is very complicated. One of the decisions a new company needs to make is if it should partner with an established Brazilian company, as this will make things much easier for them. In Brazil, knowing the culture is imperative. If a business does not know and understand the cultural norms, it will not only frustrate the business owners, but the company will quickly lose any respect it has gained from the Brazilian community, and other Brazilian business partners. It is typical for…