Vasco da Gama was probably born in either 1460 or 1469 in Sines, on the southwest coast of Portugal in the house near the church of Nossa Senhora das Salas.
The fleet of Vasco da Gama arrived in Calicut on 20 May 1498 with 170 sailors in three vessels. Negotiations with the local ruler, the Zamorin of Calicut, occasionally took on a violent nature. Efforts by Gama and the Portuguese to obtain favorable trade terms were complicated by resistance from indigenous Arab merchants. Eventually Gama was able to gain an ambiguous letter of concession for trading rights, but he had to depart without giving notice of his intention to do so after the Zamorin insisted that Gama leave all his goods as collateral. Vasco da Gama kept his goods, but left a few Portuguese with orders to start a trading post.
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