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印度几乎自开始有历史的时候,就为外边的世界所晓得,无论是西方的或是东方的。印度和埃及、希腊、罗马间,商业的、政治的文化的交流,在公历纪元以前,即已正常而频繁,并且历经若干世纪没有中断。但是,欧洲权力出现于印度,却还是十五世纪末、即一四九八年的事情。在那年,伐斯可·达·伽马到达了印度西岸的加利各特,也就是在七十五年前,明代航海家郑和的舰队所曾到达过的加利各特。这一件事不特对于印度而且对于全亚洲具有最高度的重要性。在此后的五十年中,欧洲的权力在亚洲的海洋上、在印度洋上、在太平洋上,巩固起来了,这一个进程,在十九世纪达到了顶点,直到一九四八年方才中止,距伐斯可·达·伽马的到达,整转有四百五十年之久。
Almost as soon as India began its history, it became known to the outside world whether it be Western or Eastern. The exchanges between India and Egypt, Greece, Rome, commercial and political cultures were normal and frequent before the Gregorian calendar and were not interrupted for centuries. However, the emergence of European power in India was still the end of the 15th century, that is, in 1949. In that year, Vasco da Gama arrived in Gallitet on the west coast of India, Gallit, which the seamen Zheng He’s fleet of the Ming dynasty had seventy-five years ago. This is not the single most important thing for India and for Asia as a whole. Over the next five decades, the power of Europe was consolidated in the oceans of Asia, in the Indian Ocean, and in the Pacific. This process culminated in the nineteenth century until it was suspended in 1948, The arrival of Vasco da Gama has been completed for 450 years.