| William Cooke Taylor - 1845 - 872 стор.
...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 - 1845 - 852 стор.
...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... | |
| Robert Isaac Wilberforce - 1845 - 272 стор.
...describe it as a " head of gold," shall now be mentioned. Till the improvements in navigation opened a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, the Persian Gulf was the great channel through which all traffic from the East flowed into the western... | |
| 1846 - 698 стор.
...as to be beyond the reach of the greater number. It was only after Vasco de Gama had discovered the passage to the East Indies, by the Cape of Good Hope, and Columbus, about the same time, the continent of America, that these vast countries, with their fertile... | |
| Samuel Perkins - 1848 - 494 стор.
...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 - 1849 - 164 стор.
...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 - 1850 - 504 стор.
...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 - 1851 - 544 стор.
...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 Robertson - 1851 - 774 стор.
...who inherited the enterprising genius of his predecessors, persisted in their grand scheme of opening a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, and, soon after his accession to the throne, equipped a squadron for that important voyage. He gave the... | |
| William Cowper - 1851 - 624 стор.
...while equal life, • Venice via iho mo« flourishing city in Europe, with regard to tnulc before the passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope and America was discovered. t Those who fled to юте marshes in the Adriatic gulf, from Iho desolation... | |
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