Vasco da Gama — "We must plant the cross wherever we go."

We must plant the cross wherever we go.
Vasco da Gama — Vasco da Gama Early Modern · Sea route to India

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Emphasizing the religious aspect of Portuguese expansion.

Date: 1497

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