Your basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the amount of energy your body needs to function at rest. This accounts for about 60 to 70 percent of calories burned in a day and includes the energy required to keep the heart beating, the lungs breathing, the eyelids blinking and the body temperature stabilized.
Vasco Da Gama Found a route from Portugal east to India by going around the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa. He set up trade in India and eventually became the Portuguese Viceroy in India.
Da Gama went in search of adventure and trade, so many westerners assume that the same motives inspired Zheng He's trips. However, the Ming admiral and his treasure fleet were not engaged in a voyage of exploration, for one simple reason: the Chinese already knew about the ports and countries around the Indian Ocean.