Vasco de Gama

S6, E7: The story’s set in the end of the 15th century. Spain and Portugal both seek for the legendary seaway to India. They hope to access the trade routes and thus the resources of the orient, especially nutmeg, pepper and clove. The king of Portugal sends Vasco da Gama on the mission to find the seaway to India. He would be accompanied by his brother Paulo, the king’s astronomer Zacuto ben Samuel and Bartholomew Diaz, who was the first one to pass the Cape of Good Hope ten years earlier. They have one map which was drawn after the vague description of a wayfarer and, at that time, was the only one that would show a peace of India…