Age of Discovery - Pedro Álvares Cabral

Flash Point History by Nitin Sil

Sep 12, 202326:50Society & Culture

Dec 1500 The Portuguese trading outpost in Calicut has been destroyed. In the night a vast mob attacked, razed it, and killed nearly everyone inside. Pedro Cabral orders his ships to bring their canons to bear on the cit...

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