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In the 1450’s, the only known way, to India from Europe involved traveling through Turkey. When the Turks announced a new ax on Europ’s profitable overland trade with India in 1453, Portugal and Spain began to look for an alternate sea route to India. Their search brought Europe into contact with North and South America. Within a century, much of these two vast continents would come under European con trol. It was not until 1498 that Vase0 da. Gama found the allsea route to India—around the horn of Africa.