 From that time, like everything else which falls into the hands of the Mussulman, it has been going to ruin, and the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope gave the death-blow to its commercial greatness.  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Pàgina 146per Edgar Allan Poe - 1896Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Robertson - 1817 - 432 pàgines
...India, which has been so much dreaded, instead of impoverishing enriches the kingdom. VIII. IT is to the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and to the vigour and success with which the Portuguese prosecuted their conquests and established... | |
 | William Robertson - 1817 - 430 pàgines
...India, which has been so much dreaded, instead of impoverishing enriches the kingdom. VIII. IT is to the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and to the vigour and success with which the Portuguese prosecuted their conquests and established... | |
 | William Robertson - 1817 - 450 pàgines
...India, which has been so much dreaded, instead of impoverishing enriches the kingdom. VIII. IT is to the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and to the vigour and success with which the Portuguese prosecuted their conquests and established... | |
 | 1818 - 706 pàgines
...persons and properties in laborious, painful, and dangerous expeditions. For a whole century after the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, the Portuguese were without a rival in the east. The attempts ot the English were first directed... | |
 | Vicente Pazos Kanki - 1819 - 714 pàgines
...two Americas, would pro(luce as momentous changes upon the commerce and the wealth of the world, as the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope. Like that, it would change the course of navigation to the East, and Peru and Mexico would be... | |
 | George Miller - 1820 - 600 pàgines
...be compatible with the actual state of the remainder of the system. It is, • say these writers, to the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and to the vigour and success with which the Portuguese prosecuted their conquests, and established... | |
 | André Vieusseux - 1821 - 296 pàgines
...much of their former influence, even after commerce had taken another direction, in consequence of the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope. The Genoese became the bankers of Europe, and their harbour continued to be the depot for foreign... | |
 | Edward Baines - 1821 - 680 pàgines
...manufacture of cotton good« in Europe was first attempted by the commercial states of Italy, In imiy. before the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, in 1497- The precise time when this manufacture was introduced into England и not known, but... | |
 | 1823 - 190 pàgines
...two days after the storm, was formerly remarkable for being the center of the trade, which, before the discovery of the passage to India, by the Cape of Good Hope, was carried on between Europe and the East. It is still, however, a place of considerable consequence,... | |
 | Edward Baines - 1824 - 678 pàgines
...manufacture of cotton goods in Europe was first attempted by the commercial states of Italy, In Italy, before the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, in 1497- The precise time when this manufacture was introduced into England is not known, but... | |
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