Explorers from the European country were the first to explore the west coast of Africa and eventually make the way past the cape of good hope into the Indian Ocean ?

To sail east to India, European explorers had to travel around  

✔ Africa

and the Cape of Good Hope.

The first European explorer to reach India by this route was  

✔ da Gama

.

Explanation:

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there's multiple reasons why the conquistadors were so successful in colonizing central america, and some of them are:

- they were seen as gods;

at the beginning, the spanish settlers were seen by the natives as gods, and this was mainly due to their white skin, and the way they came with their boats.

- possessed superior weaponry;

the spanish had gunpowder and guns, as well as cannons, while the natives did not had any fire weapons.

- made cleaver alliances;

they used the situation of tribes hating each other, so they made alliances with some of them which served them very well.

- brought diseases;

the native people were not immune to certain diseases the europeans brought with them, so they were dying from seeming harmless things for european standards.