The squadron of Vasco da Gama left Portugal in 1497, rounded the Cape and continued along the coast of East Africa, where a local pilot was brought on board who guided them across the Indian Ocean, reaching Calicut in western India in May 1498. The second voyage to India was dispatched in 1500 under Pedro Álvares Cabral. While following the same south-westerly route as Gama across the Atlantic Ocean, Cabral made landfall on the Brazilian coast. This was probably an accidental discovery, but it has been speculated that the Portuguese secretly knew of Brazil's existence and that it lay on their side of the Tordesillas line. Cabral recommended to the Portuguese King that the land be settled, and two follow up voyages were sent in 1501 and 1503. The land was found to be abundant in pau-brasil, or brazilwood, from which it later inherited its name, but the failure to find gold or silver meant that for the time being Portuguese efforts were concentrated on India. On 8 July 1497 the fleet, consisting of four ships and a crew of 170 men, left Lisbon The travel led by Vasco da Gama to Calicut was the starting point for deployment of Portuguese in the African east coast and in the Indian Ocean. The first contact occurred on 20 May 1498. After some conflict, he got an ambiguous letter for trade with the Zamorin of Calicut, leaving there some men to establish a trading post. Since then explorations lost the private nature, taking place under the exclusive of the Portuguese Crown. Shortly after, the Casa da Índia was established in Lisbon to administer the royal monopoly of navigation and trade.

Question: Which ocean did Da Gama cross?
Answer: Indian Ocean

Question: What country did the Second Voyage of India claim for Portugal?
Answer: Brazil

Question: What two prized metals were not found in Brazil?
Answer: gold or silver

Question: What happened later, the Vasco de Gama reaching Calicut or leaving Lisbon?
Answer: Vasco de Gama reaching Calicut

Question: How many years when Vasco da Gama left Portugal until they reached Calicut?
Answer: 1

Question: What was the basis of the name Brazil?
Answer: abundant in pau-brasil

Question: How many months did the 1497 voyage take to reach India?
Answer: 11

Question: Who sent the follow up voyages to Brazil?
Answer: Cabral

Question: How many years passed between the first and second voyage to India?
Answer: 3

Question: How many years passed between the two follow-up voyages from Portugal?
Answer: 2

Question: How many years passed between the fleet leaving Lisbon and the first contact?
Answer: 1

Question: Who led the first voyage to India, Vasco da Gama or Pedro Álvares Cabral?
Answer: Vasco da Gama

Question: How many years apart were the two follow up voyages that Cabral recommended to the Portuguese King?
Answer: 2

Question: How many years passed between the first and second voyage to India?
Answer: 3

Question: How many years passed between the first and third voyage to India?
Answer: 4

Question: How many years passed between the first and fourth voyage to India?
Answer: 6

Question: What years were there voyages to India?
Answer: 1497

Question: How many men were on each ship that left on July 8, 1497, on average?
Answer: 42.5

Question: How many months passed between the fleet leaving on July 8, 1497 and first contact being made?
Answer: 10

Question: How many days passed between the fleet leaving Libon and them making first contact?
Answer: 316

Question: How many years passed between the second and fourth voyage to India?
Answer: 3

Question: How many months after leaving Portugal did Vasco de Gama reach Calicut?
Answer: 10

Question: How many years after Vasco de Gama arrived at Calicut was the second expedition dispatched?
Answer: 2