Vasco da Gama Interactive Biography
By Micah's Learning Resources
He found the sea route to Asia that would reshape the global economy for four centuries. This interactive biography gives students the full Vasco da Gama: a Portuguese nobleman who sailed around Africa and across the Indian Ocean, bombarded ports, kidnapped hostages, and returned home with spices worth sixty times the cost of his voyage. What's Included: - Five life eras with public domain paintings and engravings, from the Portuguese court through the first voyage around the Cape, the violent arrival in Calicut, and the second voyage that cemented Portuguese power in the Indian Ocean - A dual-track timeline that sets da Gama's own life against the world he moved through: Prince Henry's voyages, the fall of Constantinople, the Portuguese rounding of the Cape, and the rival Ottoman and Venetian trading networks - Four India voyages drawn on a real world map with direction arrows and eight place markers, including the volta do mar return arc across the South Atlantic - A twenty-node connections web of the people, ships and events around him: King Manuel I, Paulo da Gama, the Zamorin of Calicut, the rival Muslim merchant networks - Four primary sources with the evidence weighed for students, each paired with a caution about what the document can and cannot prove, plus close reading prompts - A fifteen-question check for understanding with explanations How It Works: One file. Open it in any browser on a laptop, Chromebook or tablet. Nothing to install, no student accounts, no pre
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