...Arabian and Boras merchants. Surat is mentioned in the Ramayuna, a Hindoo poem of great antiquity. After the discovery of the passage to the east by the Cape of Good Hope, it was much frequented by European vessels, who exported hence pearls, diamonds, amberg is, civet,...

...source of power and splendour almost unknown in the history of other nations. With Vasco de Gama's discovery of the passage to the East by the Cape of Good Hope, in 1497, began the first decline of the source of Venetian greatness. Its accumulated resources, when...

...source of power and splendour almost unknown in the history of other nations. With Vasco de Gama's discovery of the passage to the East by the Cape of Good Hope, in 1497, began the first decline of the source of Venetian greatness. Its accumulated resources, when...

...known world, and have been only surpassed by those of modern Europe since the discovery of America, and of the passage to the East by the Cape of Good Hope. That the spirit of monopoly was a chief element of the Carthaginian policy is evident from the commercial...

...known world, and would only be surpassed by those of modem Europe since the discovery of America, and of the passage to the East by the Cape of Good Hope.* It is manifest that the spirit of monopoly was a chief element in the Carthaginian laws, as is ['roved...

...imported from foreign nations. Venice and Genoa engrossed a large proportion of the trade of Europe, till the discovery of the passage to the East by the Cape of Good Hope, and the enterprise of the Portuguese and Dutch, and after them the French and EnglUh, diverted European...

...known world, and would only be surpassed by those of modern Europe since the discovery of America, and of the passage to the East by the Cape of Good Hope.* It is manifest that the spirit of monopoly waa a chief element in the Carthaginian laws, as is proved...

...Imported from foreign nations. Venice and Genoa engrossed a large proportion of the trade of Europe, till the discovery of the passage to the East by the Cape of Good Hope, and the enterprise of the Portuguese and Dutch, and after them the ¡ Trieste, however, is at present...

...civilization of the west shed a faint prosperity on its concerns ; but under the dominion of the Turks, and on the discovery of the passage to the east by the Cape of Good Hope, in the close of the fifteenth century, the trade of Alexandria, sunk into complete decay. Alexandria,...

...travels of Marco Polo, and other travellers who succeeded him, opened up Eastern Asia to their view. The discovery of the passage to the East, by the Cape of Good Hope, soon made the southern and eastern coasts of Asia familiar to Europeans, and the conquest of Siberia,...