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True or False. Vasco De Gama sea route to India was the first contact between Europe and India

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Answer: True.

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True!

Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovered a sea route to India in 1497-1498. Actually, an unnamed Indian navigator he hired in Kenya directed the journey from the east coast of Africa to what is now Kozhikode, India.
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