 | India - 1818 - 350 pages
...Holy-head. — 5. Particulars relative to the court of Raja KHshna-Ch«ndra-raya. No. II. contains— 1. Discovery of the passage to India by way of the Cape of Good-Hope. — 2. Trees and plants found in Bengal ; but not indigenous to Britain, as the Sugar-cane,... | |
 | Alfred Radford Symonds - India - 1845 - 430 pages
...73° T E., is one of the most ancient cities of Hindoostan, being mentioned in the Ramayana, After the discovery of the passage to India by way of the Cape of Good Hope, Surat became the principal resort of European trading vessels. Factories were established by... | |
 | Economics - 1846 - 630 pages
...rich, as well as famous all over Christendom, till the beginning of the sixteenth century, when, by the discovery of the passage to India by way of the Cape of Good Hopo by the Portuguese, the trade for Indian merchandize was transferred to Lisbon, where it flourished... | |
 | Commerce - 1846 - 594 pages
...hand, we think it best to commence, what we propose to call Modern Commerce, with the accomplishment of the passage to India by way of the Cape of Good Hope, and the discovery of America by Columbus ; presuming no one will doubt that these two events,... | |
 | Marcius Willson - History - 1854 - 622 pages
...and the Isthmus of Suez, Alexandria waa a great commercial emporium, but It rapidly declined after the discovery of the passage to India by way of the Cape of Good Hope. !t is probable that the commerce of the east, through the agency *f atoara, will again flow,... | |
 | MARCUS WILLSON - 1864 - 860 pages
...and the isthmus of Suez, Alexandria was a great commercial emporium, but it rapidly declined after the discovery of the passage to India by way of the Cape of (Jood Hope. It is probable that the commerce of the east, through the agency of steam, will again flow,... | |
 | Jarrold and sons, ltd - 1872 - 276 pages
...settled. A great impulse was given to maritime enterprise by the discovery of America by Columbus, and of the passage to India by way of the Cape of Good Hope, by Vasco de Gama. A spirit of enquiry had sprung up with the invention of printing, and the multiplication... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1874 - 624 pages
...and the Ulhrnus of Sue/., Alexandria was a great commercial emporium, but it rapidly declined after the discovery of the passage to India by way of the Cape of Oood Hope. It is probable that the commerce of the east, through the agenrj »f steam, will again flow,... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1875 - 632 pages
...and the Isthmus of Suez, Alexandria was a great commercial emporium, but it rapidly declined after the discovery of the passage to India by way of the Cape of Good Mope. It is probable that the commerce of the east, through the agency if steam, will again flow, to... | |
 | Cincinnati (Ohio). Board of Education - Cincinnati (Ohio) - 1878 - 474 pages
...greatness of Spain during the first half of the sixteenth century ? What practical result grew out of the discovery of the passage to India by way of the Cape of Good Hope? 2. Give the principal terms of the treaty that closed the Thirty Years' War. 3. What led to the... | |
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It is, as it were, the fort which commands the way from Europe to the East. This has been the case from time immemorial, and the provision, in 1869, of direct maritime communication between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, by the completion of the Suez... 
