The Portuguese came to India in search of
(A) Muslin cloth
(B) Labours
(C) Spices
(D) Gold
Question Asked : SSC Scientific Assistant (CS) Exam 2017
Explanation : Vasco da Gama landed in Calicut in 1498 on the west cost of India, several hundred miles south of Goa, and thus became the first person to find a sea route from Europe to India around the Cape of Good Hope. The Portuguese were desperate to control the spice trade from India. then controlled by the Arabs. and needed a good port, which turned out to be Goa.
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