 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
 | 1838 - 542 pàgines
...other causes at work, the decline of the great trading republics of Venice and Genoa may be traced to the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope. Soon after Gama's return Emanuel sent out a second fleet to India, under the command of Pedro... | |
 | 1838 - 556 pàgines
...the tide of events the curiosity of the European world was carried impetuously in another direction. The discovery of the Passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and soon after that of America, irresistibly seized on the minds of men, and all minor discoveries... | |
 | Account - 1838 - 304 pàgines
...following their inclinations. In time, however, the power of England greatly increased, and Portugal, after the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, became less jealous, or rather more careless, of their African possessions. The alarming account... | |
 | William Fullerton Cumming - 1839 - 838 pàgines
...citizens being paralysed and withered by the jealous and grinding policy of Austria. From the date of the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, the commerce of the East, which until then had passed through Venice, was diverted to other channels... | |
 | 1839 - 444 pàgines
...a curious illustration of the intercourse which subsisted between Asia and Europe, just previous to the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope. " Many men of religious orders, Italian, French, and Flemings, were charged with diplomatic missions... | |
 | William Russell - 1839 - 582 pàgines
...in Europe, it has become one of the less considerable. Portugal has experienced a like fate, since the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and the settlement of Brazil ; and from the same cause, a too great and sudden influx of wealth.... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1840 - 536 pàgines
...contained, at one time, 600,000 inhabitants. After its capture, by the Saracens, it began to decline, and the discovery of the passage to India, by the Cape of Good Hope, destroyed its commercial importance. At present, it consists of narrow, crooked, and dirty streets,... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1840 - 612 pàgines
...contained at one time 600,000 inhabitants. After its capture by the Saracens, it began to decline ; and the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, destroyed its commercial importance. At present it consists of narrow, crooked, and dirty streets,... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1840 - 684 pàgines
...North. But there was an interior land-commerce carried on at the same time, and which subsisted till the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope. The connection was formed through the cities of Augsburg and Nuremburg, which had an emporium... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1841 - 1052 pàgines
...history of Alexandria. It continued progressively to decline till, in 1497, its ruin was consummated by the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope. But there can be no doubt, as previously stated, that It is destined to recover some portion... | |
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