![]() ![]() ![]() To grab a share of the rich spice trade with Europe, and to hunt for Christian allies against the Islamic world. When Vasco da Gama finally rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1498 and crossed the Indian Ocean, he arrived with two objectives. However it describes the deteriorating relations between the Portuguese, newcomers to the Indian Ocean, and the ruler of Calicut, a key city on the West Coast of India for the trade in spices.Ĭonquerors traces the efforts of the Portuguese to find a sea route to India – 60 years of intense and quite single-minded effort down the coast of Africa. ![]() He is also the author of 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West, Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World, and City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas.Ĭrowley applied the “ Test” to his new book, Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire, and reported the following: I rather wished this had been the test, as 99 is a chapter end in the US edition, little more than a short paragraph. He has traveled extensively throughout the Mediterranean basin over many years and has a wide-ranging interest in its past and culture, as well as in seafaring and eyewitness history. ![]() Roger Crowley read English at Cambridge University and taught English in Istanbul. ![]()
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