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Before Vasco da Gama, which Portuguese explorer successfully rounded the southern tip of Africa in 1488, proving a sea route to the Indian Ocean was possible?

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Bartolomeu Dias was the first European to round the Cape of Good Hope (then called the Cape of Storms) in 1488, a crucial step towards finding a sea route to Asia.

A. Henry the Navigator

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B. Pedro Álvares Cabral

C. Bartolomeu Dias

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D. Ferdinand Magellan

Before Vasco da Gama, which Portuguese explorer successfully rounded the southern tip of Africa in 1488, proving a sea route to the Indian Ocean was possible?

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