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306: Columbus: The Adventure Begins (Part 1)
The Rest Is History
Columbus Sailing in Portugal
Dominic says Columbus is an auto-died act and we'll touch on that a little bit in a second. He probably goes to see when his mid-teens, maybe 14, possibly later. But he ends up in Portugal. That's a very well-worn route for Genoese mariners. So the Portuguese are already employing black African slaves in Madeira. The Portuguese have a business model that the Spanish do not follow. They will establish trading posts, fortresses, but they don't tend to settle. And at this point in the 15th century, there's a lot of sort of gossip about whether there could be something to the west. People talk about an
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