| 1798 - 776 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 - 334 ページ
...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... | |
| Vivant Denon - 1803 - 332 ページ
...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... | |
| Robert Kerr - 1812 - 534 ページ
...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 ページ
...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... | |
| Walter Hamilton (M.R.A.S.) - 1828 - 878 ページ
...supposed 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 ページ
...supposed still to exist. Notwithstanding ihese documents, the Siamese nation was wholly unknown in Europe, until the discovery of the route to India by the Cape of Good Hope. The first traces of their authentic history begin about AD 1550, and were acquired through the... | |
| George Miller - 1832 - 518 ページ
...woollen ma- " Schmidt, tome vp 510. nufactuie in England.—Trans. of the Uui ul Irish Academy, vol. i. since it subsisted in prosperity and power until the...period of a distant navigation and extended traffic. Connecting the commerce of Italy with that of the Baltic 53 , and thereby providing for the interchange... | |
| 1836 - 600 ページ
...considerably. Another important vent for bullion was during this time found in the trade that grew out of the discovery of the route to India by the Cape of Good Hope, in the prosecution of which it was long necessary to pay for eastern products in gold and silver,... | |
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