...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...

...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. At present it stands a phenomenon in the history...

...time, like everything else which falls in 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. At present it stands a phenomenon in the history...

...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....

...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...

...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, and is surrounded...

...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, with lofty...

...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...

...the Macedonian conqueror which proved the ruin of the trade of both Phœnicia and Babylon, just as the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope ruined, in a great measure, Bagdad, Alexandrea, and Venice — the Tyre of the middle ages. From...

...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...