On Vasco da Gama second voyage, Vasco da Gama commanded a fleet of Portuguese ships and used them to subdue Arab trading ships and port cities in Africa and India. Do you agree that the Portuguese had the right to use force to establish colonies and become an important player in trade between Europe and Asia? Why or why not?

The Portuguese nobleman Vasco da Gama (1460-1524) sailed from Lisbon in 1497 on a mission to reach India and open a sea route from Europe to the East. After sailing down the western coast of Africa and rounding the Cape of Good Hope, his expedition made numerous stops in Africa before reaching the trading post of Calicut, India, in May 1498. Da Gama received a hero’s welcome back in Portugal, and was sent on a second expedition to India in 1502, during which he brutally clashed with Muslim traders in the region. Two decades later, da Gama again returned to India, this time as Portuguese viceroy; he died there of an illness in late 1524.

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