Sunday, August 12, 2007

Places Visited by the Maritime Explorer





FIRST STOP

Mombasa
The Portuguese became the first known Europeans to visit the port of Mombasa but were met with hostility and soon departed.

SECOND STOP

Malindi
The Portuguese contracted the services of an Arab navigator and cartographer, whose knowledge of the monsoon winds allowed him to bring the expedition the rest of the way to Calicut.

THIRD STOP

Calicut
Vasco Da Gama kept his goods but left a few Portuguese with orders to start a trading post.

BACK HOME

Portugal
The result of the trip was the colonization of Mozambique by the Portuguese crown.