第六章 Age of Discovery 航海时代
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valued， and in part because Bartolomeu Dias departed in 1487 trying the rounding of the southern tip of Africa， therefore they believed that sailing east would require a far shorter journey. Dias’s return from the Cape of Good Hope in 1488， and Pêro da Covilh? travel to Ethiopia overland indicated that the richness of the Indian Sea was accessible from the Atlantic. A long–overdue expedition was prepared. ??Under new king Manuel I of Portugal， on July 1497 a small exploratory fleet of four ships and about 170 men left Lisbon under command of Vasco da Gama. By December the fleet passed the Great Fish River–where Dias had turned back–and sailed into unknown waters. On 20 May 1498， the