* Thank you very much  to all the students and mentor teachers who contributed to this activity.

Mentor  Teacher: Nurdan YILMAM

Team 2 Mentor Teacher Ana Maria Csiki

   Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea.

   His most significant accomplishment was sailing from Portugal to India in 1497. The Portuguese were looking for a water route to India. He left Portugal in 1497 and sailed south along the western coast of Africa.

Vasco brought back cinnamon and pepper, silk and jewels, and together with some Indian hostages. He was rewarded the town of Sines. He was also rewarded with 300,000 reis. Temperate forests are forests that are located around North America, North-Eastern Asia, and Western and Central Europe. Vasco da Gama invariably facilitated the exploration of the Indian subcontinent and rest of Asia. He actually paved the way for Portuguese colonies and later the British colonized much of India through the eighteenth century. However, unlike the British and their governors, Vasco da Gama was revered by the Indian people, particularly in the southern states. Vasco da Gama served a satiating tenure as governor and was also held responsible for relative prosperity in a few southern regions of India. A part of the route required Da Gama’s fleet to sail more than 10,000 kilometres of open sea. At that time this was the longest journey ever made out of sight of land. Da Gama and his crew also overcame the challenge of sailing through waters which were previously unknown to Europeans. In April 1498, they became the first Europeans to visit the port of Mombasa in Kenya, which lay in their route to India.

    Discoveries and cultural impact / Opinion of Modern Society

     In 1497,he added a New one to the Portuguese sea expeditions initiated by the navigator Henry,by developing the sea route that was discovered by Bartelemeu Dias before him and extending as far as the Cape of good hope,which circumnavigated Africa.

Vasco De Gama was the first European to find an ocean trading route to India. He accomplished what many explorers before him could not do. His discovery of this sea route helped the Portuguese establish a long-lasting colonial empire in Asia and Africa. The new ocean route around Africa allowed Portuguese sailors to avoid the Arab trading hold in the Mediterranean and Middle East. Better access to the Indian spice routes boosted Portugal’s economy. Vasco da Gama opened a new world of riches by opening up an Indian Ocean route. His voyage and explorations helped change the world for Europeans.

    Vasco De Gama was the first European to find an ocean trading route to India. Better access to the Indian spice routes boosted Portugal's economy. Vasco da Gama opened a new world of riches by opening up an Indian Ocean route. His voyage and explorations helped change the world for Europeans. Da Gama's discovery of the sea route to India opened the way for an age of global imperialism and enabled the Portuguese to establish a long-lasting colonial empire in Asia.

    Vasco da Gama is considered one of the leading figures of not only the Age of Discovery but the entire history of exploration. Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads), a Portuguese epic poem written by Luís Vaz de Camões and regarded as Portugal’s national epic, is primarily about Vasco da Gama’s voyages. Numerous places have been named after him including the port city of Vasco da Gama in Goa and the crater Vasco da Gama on the Moon. Da Gama ranked 10th in a nationwide poll for the Greatest Portuguese organized by the Portuguese public broadcasting station RTP.

    Though Vasco da Gama is revered in Portugal, his legacy in India has suffered due to several reasons including the pilgrim ship incident.

*Alyssia- Dr.I.Mesota College Romania (Ana Maria Csiki )

*Yaren- Rotary 100. Yıl Anadolu Lisesi Turkey (Fatma Boztepe) 

*Daniela-Agrupamento de Escolas de Tarouca , Portugal (Isabel Quintas)

*Arkadiusz

 Zespół Szkół nr 3 im. Witolda Pileckiego w Zabrzu, Zabrze, Poland , Konrad Malendowicz

*Kıymet /  Fatih Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School /Eşe Çetin Acar

Piri Reis (1470-1554) OTTOMAN TURKISH

1- Kitab-ı Bahriye

2- Libero Para Navegantes

3- Tunisia in the Kitab-ı Bahriye 

4- Deux Regards Ottomans Sur Alexandre

5- XVI-XVII-XVIII with the lines of Piri Reis and Turkish Cartographers Venice of the Century.

After the death of his uncle in 1511, Piri Reis, who did not sail to the open seas for a while and settled in Gallipoli, drew the first world map dated 1513, in this map covering the Atlantic Ocean, the Iberian Peninsula, the west of Africa and the east coast of the new world America. drew the map.

Piri Reis' map is the first world map. Despite the conditions of the time, this map, which was drawn quite comprehensively, left traces in the Ottoman naval history.

   There are two things about this map that amazes modern society. The first is Piri Reis' drawing of the America Continent, which he had never set foot in his life. The second is that the dimensions of the map are technically the same as the photographs of the world taken from space.

 *Gülay Nur  Tes-İş Adapazarı Anadolu Lisesi (Senem Sönmez)

 * Reyyan  İskenderun Kız Anadolu İmam Hatip Lisesi (Gülcan Bedir)

  *Zeynep Sude Tes-İş Adapazarı Anadolu Lisesi (Vesile Uslu)

*Kıymet /  Fatih Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School (Eşe Çetin Acar)

(Konrad Malendowicz)           

*Kıymet /  Fatih Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School (Eşe Çetin Acar)

Team 3 - Mentor Teacher Senem Sönmez

*Arzu E./Adile Onbaşı MTAL Tarsus , Dürdane Derya Aksoy

*Elif /  Hüyük Makbule Durmuş Akkuş Religious Anatolian High School, Nurdan Yılmam

*Elif /  İskenderun Kız Anadolu İmam Hatip Lisesi, Gülcan Bedir

Evliya Celebi’s Personality

His benevolent nature saved him from many dangers. Evliya Celebi, had a love for travel even in the last days of his life.   He tried to decease the resentments caused by the enmity and rivalry between the viziers by Decisively managing them and reconciling them. He himself never married, and he spent all the gifts received, money and booty he got on his sisters.

*Işık -Eray

 Kadir Has Anadolu Lisesi,İstanbul-Turkey -Birsen Erdoğan