 From that time, like everything else which falls into the hands of the Mussulman, it has been going to ruin, and the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope gave the deathblow to its commercial greatness.  Works - Page 271by William Robertson - 1825Full view - About this book
 | David Lester Richardson - 1845 - 274 pages
...used, it being found more convenient to go through the narrow and crowded streets on donkeys. Before the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, Cairo was a most distinguished city, and shared with Alexandria in the advantages of the traffic... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 pages
...latitude. It abounds with whales, walruses, and other animals common to the Arc- . tic ocean. When the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope had more fully laid open the eastern regions of the Old World, adventurers soon became desirous... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - 1845 - 88 pages
...letters, the art of printing, the extension of commerce resulting from the discovery of America and of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and finally the emancipation of the human mind by the Reformation, had been, most of them, in operation,... | |
 | John Kitto - 1845 - 932 pages
...trading people, their capital being Petra. The transittrade from India continued to enrich Arabia until the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope; but the invention of steam-navigation has now restored the ancient route for travellers by the... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1846 - 536 pages
...followed successively ; but it was not till the year 1516, when the Portuguese first visited Canton after the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, that we find any regular intercourse established between China and the western nations. The vessels... | |
 | 1846 - 594 pages
...Hanse Towns ? — once the mistresses of the seas ! Where are Spain and Portugal ? — the discoverers of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and the first settlers of the JVew World ! These questions answer themselves. Their prosperity and glory... | |
 | Europe - 1846 - 88 pages
...of the Indian trade until the time of the Ptolemies. From the time of the Ptolemies, however, until the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, Europe was chiefly supplied with Indian commodities through Egypt. Under the Ptolemies, the Romans,... | |
 | James William Gilbart - 1847 - 356 pages
...Egypt by the Mahometans—AD 649. IV. The trade to India, from the conquest of Egypt by the Mahometans, to the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope—AD 1498. First.—The trade with India previous to the time of Alexander the Great. Previous... | |
 | 1847 - 722 pages
...cities ; once the rulers of the destinies of mankind ? Where are Spain and Portugal, the discoverers of the passage to India, by the Cape of Good Hope, and of the Western World ? The answer is plain — their prosperity and glory have departed because they... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1847 - 560 pages
...followed successively ; but it was not till the year 1516, when the Portuguese first visited Canton after the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, that we find any regular intercourse established between China and the western ••• nations.... | |
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