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" Immediately previous to the discovery of the route to India by the Cape of Good Hope, we find that the price of pepper in the markets of Europe had fallen to 6s. "
Lectures on the Philosophy of Modern History: Delivered in the University of ... - Page 168
by George Miller - 1820
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Copies of Original Letters from the Army of General Bonaparte in ..., 1–2. köide

1798 - 776 lehte
...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...
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Money: Its Nature, History, Uses and Responsibilities

Money - 1799 - 208 lehte
...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...
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Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt: During the Campaigns of General ..., 1. köide

Vivant Denon - 1803 - 334 lehte
...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...
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Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt: During the Campaigns of General ..., 2. köide

Vivant Denon - 1803 - 332 lehte
...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...
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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, 6. köide

Robert Kerr - 1812 - 534 lehte
...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...
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A General History of Voyages and Travels to the End of the 18th ..., 6. köide

Robert Kerr - 1812 - 538 lehte
...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...
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The East Indian Gazetteer: Containing Particular Descriptions of ..., 1. köide

Walter Hamilton (M.R.A.S.) - 1828 - 878 lehte
...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...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., 20. köide

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 798 lehte
...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...
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History, philosophically issustrated, from the fall of the Roman ..., 2. köide

George Miller - 1832 - 518 lehte
...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...
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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful ..., 6. köide

1836 - 600 lehte
...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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