{"id":252,"date":"2012-07-09T14:44:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T13:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowyouknowabout.com\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2012-07-09T14:44:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T13:44:44","slug":"vasco-da-gama-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nowyouknowabout.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Vasco da Gama for kids!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vasco da Gama?\u00a0 Who he?\u00a0 I can hear you asking.\u00a0 Today in 1497, this Portuguese ultra-daring explorer set off on an epic journey to be the first man to sail from Portugal round the tip of Africa and on up to India.\u00a0 What&#8217;s the big deal?\u00a0 Until he did this, no-one knew you <em>could<\/em> do this journey by sea.\u00a0 Instead, everyone trudged via Constantinople and overland to India, loaded up with spices and precious stones and then had to make it back &#8211; alive and without being robbed.\u00a0 So da Gama opened up the sea route and changed the way trade developed &#8211; and made Portugal very rich in the process.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now we can go everywhere, of course, so the immensity of this journey is lost on us.\u00a0 But back then, it was ground-breaking and he is still regarded as one of the great explorers, up there with Columbus and Magellan and Cook.\u00a0 The fact that he was a nasty SOB is neither here nor there at this stage in history &#8211; he is still famous for his seafaring exploits.<\/p>\n<p>Parents, grandparents, teachers and the generally curious can learn and find out more in ten little minutes with our jolly film which tells you Vasc0 da Gama&#8217;s biography and why he is well-known even today.\u00a0 Just check out our film &#8211; NowYouKnowAbout Vasco da Gama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vasco da Gama?\u00a0 Who he?\u00a0 I can hear you asking.\u00a0 Today in 1497, this Portuguese ultra-daring explorer set off on an epic journey to be the first man to sail from Portugal round the tip&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nowyouknowabout.com\/?p=252\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vasco da Gama for kids! 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