The History of the Portuguese Empire

If columbus had landed where he thought he was going to land, which was in indonesia, probably the story had been very different. He wouldn't have been able to conquer in well, except he there is a difference that we can see,. because it was only the next century, really just a few decades later, that the portuguese did arrive in the indian ocean. They disrupted the whole trading system. And that was the beginning of the sort of colonialism. It's so important to look at different world views, to understand that what we think is a given is actually just one particular way of looking at things. By the way, if you could send me a

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