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Vasco Da Gama’S Voyages To India: Messianism, Mercantilism, And Sacred Exploits, S. M. Ghazanfar

Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective

The Portuguese explorer, Vasco da Gama (1460-1524), was the first European to sail from Portugal to India. Accolades for this achievement have long obscured the messianic motivation for the 1498 voyage, “to invade, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Saracens (Muslims) and pagans and other enemies of Christ; to reduce them to perpetual slavery; to convert them to Christianity; [and] to acquire great wealth by force of arms from the Infidels,” as sanctified by various Papal Bulls, together called “the Doctrine of Discovery” (Dum Diversas, 1452; Romanus Pontifex, 1455; Inter Caetera, 1493). The other key motive in …

Hollins Columns (1970 Dec 8), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Hollins acquires new computer to supplement college program
• Logan criticizes academic state
• Ac Leg studies short term credit, general intellectual environment
• Columns names editor
• Security
• Sex
• RLA sponsors many programs of involvement for community
• Faculty sale to aid TRUST
• Hollins Abroaders anticipate January departure
• TRUST group manages problems of drugs, youth, finances, family
• Several seniors plan December graduation
• Choir program opens holidays
• Class enacts Buddhist rites
• New facilities aid musicians
• Political simulation resembles American electoral processes
• Speakers aid studies
• Honors seminar allows freedom in major field
• Text studies birth control