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Expert: Rebecca Curran - 11/3/2004


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I belive that the Portugese Navigator Vasco da Gama was the first foreginer in India. He was responsible for opening up the trade routes to Portugal which in turn made them a major Power house in trade. I belive that the time frame was around the late 1400's.
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