The Great Vasco da Gama

Portuguese sailors - Europe to India by sea

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[Luso515PorTuoGraal]

@sarariro Vasco da Gama and some men may have been, and were sometimes cruel, but also escaped the many traps and attacks made against them​by many cruel men in Eastern Africa and Asia.

[Laminatorinator]

Arrival of vasco da gama sparked of the beginning of european era in India and brought glory

[BabyMathewChal]

vasco de gama was an asshole..

[kunaltom1]

@Laminatorinator...Glory to Portugal and colonialism to India.

[jfarinhote]

@kunaltom1 Yes, I'm not trying to deny that part either. You are right about that, I wont argue facts, I'm sure he is not considered great for that part of his "deeds"...

[kunaltom1]

@jfarinhote in that sense i agree.but i cant agree when someone calls a successful sailor who burned a ship with pilgrims including women and children as 'great'.A person like Hitler might find him great,but to me and many like me who believe in higher ideals he is just a cruel cold blooded pirate.If you look up wikipedia for Vasco Da Gama you can find the whole history of his cruel misdeeds.

[jfarinhote]

@kunaltom1 I was being sarcastic. Its obvious that behind all those "glory times" of every nation was death. That man was not different from the others. The problem is that too many people still think that way in the XXIst century.

I have one question to you. Do you know any other nation in the world with 10 million people that had achieved the same empire and influence as any other world power?

[kunaltom1]

@jfarinhote Oh yeah...They were children and women who were returning home after pilgrimage.he robbed them and then locked them up and burned the ship! so much for the glory of the Portuguese Empire which claims to have done all this to bring the light of Christianity to the world.Greed and conquest -these were the only motives of his journeys.

[kunaltom1]

@Lavourah the greatest pirate with royal patronage of all times!

[ukusapillage]

do you even know who vasco da gama was... calling the man a murderer in a time when people thought the world was flat is just stupid, everybody was brutl back then, whites to blacks blacks to blacks yellow to whites and so on, the best and brightest impose themselfs and rule and thats what he did for the honor and glory of portugal and europe over our enemys at the time witch was islam and muslims

[jfarinhote]

@razzzor1234 Just a cold blooded murderer? You are the one who have to read here