{"id":138783,"date":"2023-06-05T14:49:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T09:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=138783"},"modified":"2023-06-05T14:49:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T09:19:28","slug":"on-which-of-the-following-ports-in-india-did-vasco-da-gama-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/on-which-of-the-following-ports-in-india-did-vasco-da-gama-land\/","title":{"rendered":"On which of the following ports in India did Vasco da Gama land?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Q. On which of the following ports in India did Vasco da Gama land?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(a) Hugli<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(b) Surat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(c) Calicut<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(d) Mangalore<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ans: (c) Calicut<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explanation: Vasco da Gama landed on the port of (c) Calicut in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1498, Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer, arrived in India by sea. He landed on the Malabar Coast of India, specifically at the port of Calicut (present-day Kozhikode) in the state of Kerala. This voyage marked the first direct sea route from Europe to India, opening up a new era of European trade and colonization in the Indian subcontinent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. On which of the following ports in India did Vasco da Gama land? (a) Hugli (b) Surat (c) Calicut (d) Mangalore Ans: (c) Calicut Explanation: Vasco da Gama landed on the port of (c) Calicut in India. In 1498, Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer, arrived in India by sea. He landed on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":138784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018],"tags":[5019],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-138783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-quiz","tag-upsc-history-quiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138785,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138783\/revisions\/138785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138783"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=138783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}