Vasco da Gama and Africa: An Era of Mutual Discovery, 1497-1800 - JSTOR

The long-term consequences of da Gama's feat were also note worthy. A. J. R. Russell-Wood suggests that da Gama launched "a new era as momentous as that heralded by the Columbus landfall in the Bahamas."2 Other historians contend that da Gama's voyage was actu ally of much greater importance historically than Columbus's "discov ................
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