Vasco da Gama. Kunin Konstantin Ilyich

The popular science biography of a person who made one of the most remarkable discoveries in the history of travel, blood and iron paved the way for the colonial power of Portugal. The greatest poet of Portugal Luis Camoens wrote about the first swimming of Vasco da Gama the famous poem "Luciada". The activities of Vasco da Gama were of great importance for Portugal and the whole world. The opening of the sea route to India, along with the discovery of America, had a huge impact on the fate of mankind. Of the closed sea basins, European peoples first reached the room of the oceans. Mediterranean countries - Venice, Genoa, Florence, Catalonia, Levant - gave way to new countries located on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean - first Spain and Portugal, and then Holland, France and England.