For the one that you choose you must create a short biography (life events such as birthplace, achievements and death) (5 sentence minimum) I chose Vasco de gama. Tell me why he as an explorer was important to history. (3 sentence minimum)

Vasco da Gama was born in 1460 or 1469 in Sines, Alentejo, Kingdom of Portugal and he was a Portuguese explorer, he was one of the most successful in the European Age of Discovery and he was the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India. He was the first ever European to find an ocean trading route to India. Vasco da Gama accomplished what many explorers before him weren't able to accomplished and his discovery of this sea route helped the Portuguese establish a long-lasting colonial empire in Asia and Africa. Over the course of his two voyages, one beginning in 1497 and the second one beginning in 1502, Vasco da Gama landed and traded in locales along the Coast of Southern Africa before da Gama reached India in 1498 on  May 20. Vasco da Gama died by contracted a disease called Malaria not long after arriving, in the city of Kochi, India on Christmas Eve in 1524, three months after his arrival.

social contract theory basically says that all individuals are born equal, and provided a god given right to consent to be governed. american government is based of this

thomas hobbes and john locke said that we are selfish, individualistic, and constantly at war with each other, therefore we need to be controlled. 

government is defined as the legitimate use of force to control human behavior within territorial boundaries, here comes in hobbes and locke.

hobbes takes the part about controlling human behavior. while locke takes the part of legitimate use of force, since force is not legitimate unless there is consent of the people. 

there are basically 3 goals of the government: 1) maintain order by protecting life and property. 2) providing public goods, those which are typically not provided by the public sector, such as roads and education. 3) promote equality be it political, opportunist or outcome equality. 

by 1880, germany had more rail lines than great britain and russia.