 | 1798 - 776 páginas
...people which historians have given it. But the despotism and stupor which followed that period, and the discovery of the route to India by the Cape of Good Hope, have successively reduced it to the miserable state in which it now lies. It is a mere heap of... | |
 | Money - 1799 - 208 páginas
...The discovery of America in the fifteenth century opened a new field for commercial enterprise, and the discovery of the route to India by the Cape of Good Hope, transferred for a time the commercial sceptre to the Portuguese. On the emancipation of the Netherlands... | |
 | Vivant Denon - 1803 - 332 páginas
...existence is dated after the commerce of India had been diverted, and in a manner annihilated, either by the discovery of the route to India by the Cape of Good Hope, or by the tyranny of the government of Egypt. Its commerce being coni fined to the passage of... | |
 | Vivant Denon - 1803 - 334 páginas
...existence is elated after the commerce of India had been diverted, and in a manner annihilated, either by the discovery of the route to India by the Cape of Good Hope, or by the tyranny of the government of Egypt. Its commerce being confined to the passage of the... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1812 - 534 páginas
...settlement of the Arabs on the East Coast of Ajrica'^ - . ., • : •• •"••:. :''*'.- =I BEFORE the Discovery of the Route to India by the Cape of Good Hope, formerly related in PART II. CHAPTER VI. the spices and other productions of India were brought... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1812 - 538 páginas
...of Good Hope, icith some account tf the settlement of the Arabs on the East Coast of AfricaI. BEFORE the Discovery of the Route to India by the Cape of Good Hope, formerly related in PART II. CHAPTER VI. the spices and other productions of India were brought... | |
 | George Miller - 1820 - 624 páginas
...completed the progress of the interior commerce of Europe, since it subsisted in prosperity and power until the discovery of the route to India by the Cape of Good Hope began the period of a distant navigation and extended traffic, (w) Connecting the commerce of... | |
 | Walter Hamilton (M.R.A.S.) - 1828 - 878 páginas
...still to exist. Notwithstanding these documents, the Siamese nation was wholly unknown to Europe until the discovery of the route to India by the Cape of Good Hope. The first traces of their authentic history began about AD, 1550, and were acquired by adventurers... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 798 páginas
...still to exist. Notwithstanding ihese documents, the Siamese nation was wholly unknown in Europe, until purple flowers. Dryden. She raised it to her mouth wit Hope. The first traces of their authentic history begin about AD 1550, and were acquired through the... | |
 | George Miller - 1832 - 518 páginas
...England.—Trans. of the Uui ul Irish Academy, vol. i. since it subsisted in prosperity and power until the discovery of the route to India, by the Cape of Good Hope, began the period of a distant navigation and extended traffic. Connecting the commerce of Italy... | |
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Immediately previous to the discovery of the route to India by the Cape of Good Hope, we find that the price of pepper in the markets of Europe had fallen to 6s. 
