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
| 1847 - 722 pages
...cities ; once the rulers of the destinies of mankind ? Where aro 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... | |
| George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1847 - 1376 pages
...cities ; once the rulers of the destinies of mankind ? Where arp S|i:iin 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 and1 glory have departed because they... | |
| Richmal Mangnall - 1848 - 498 pages
...crocodiles. These tremendous monsters, however, seem to be less frequent than formerly. 17. Previous to the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, the Oriental commerce of Cairo was very extensive; but since that time it has greatly declined,... | |
| 1848 - 476 pages
...all the inhabitants of that populous empire are clothed in cotton cloths of home manufacture. Before the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, cotton wool is said to have been spun and woven in some of the Italian states, the traders of... | |
| John Collingwood Bruce - 1848 - 190 pages
...discovered Newfoundland, and explored the coast of North America from Labrador to the Gulf of Florida. The discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope was made in this reign. HENRY VIII. 1509. Henry VIII. was eighteen years of age when he began... | |
| International society for the evangelization of the Jews - 1848 - 628 pages
...Jews. From that period Alexandria, with its population and grandeur, began gradually to decay ; and the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope levelled a death-blow to the commerce of this city. The Jews in consequence evacuated it, so that,... | |
| S. Wilson - 1849 - 156 pages
...reflect the almost horizontal rays of the sun. t See " Jason," in a Classical Dictionary. j Before the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, and when Constantinople and Alexandria were competitors for the commerce of the East, the way of conveyance... | |
| William Henry Bartlett - 1849 - 376 pages
...leading to this unrivalled emporium, and continued thus, both under the Ptolemies and the Romans, until the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope. Science also, fostered by the munificence of the Ptolemies, retired from her ancient seat at... | |
| William Henry Bartlett - 1849 - 388 pages
...leading to this unrivalled emporium, and continued thus, both under the Ptolemies and the Romans, until the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope. Science also, fostered by the munificence of the Ptolemies, retired from her ancient seat at... | |
| S. Brown - 1849 - 220 pages
...V., emperor of Germany. 112. Margaret of Anjou, wife to Henry VI., and her son. 113. Lewis XIV. 114. The discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, by which the trade of Venice was destroyed. 115. Catherine Parr, sixth wife to Henry VIII. 116.... | |
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