The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco Da Gama (78 page)

Cairo,
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Calicut (Kozhikode), India,
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alliance with Cannanore,
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Cabral and (1500),
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Cannanore at war with,
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caste system in,
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Christianity in,
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churches (Hindu temples),
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customs,
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Gama and,
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Gama and crew detained in,
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Gama demands expulsion of Arabs,
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Gama drawn into ambush,
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Gama pursued by war fleet,
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Gama’s bombardment,
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Gama’s captives,
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Gama’s grisly letter to,
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Gama’s vengeance,
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gold of,
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Hinduism in, mistaken for Christianity,
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inhabitants of,
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Mîrî
massacre by Gama,
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Muslims in,
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palace,
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persecution of Christians in,
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Portuguese attack of 1506,
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Portuguese factory,
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Portuguese fort,
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Portuguese war on,
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sacred cows of,
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sexual practices and,
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Sodré left to blockade the harbor,
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spice trade and,
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wali
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Zamorin,
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see also
Zamorin)

Callistus III, Pope,
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Cambay (Khambhat), India,
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Camões, Luís Vas de,
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Canary Islands,
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Cannanore,
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Cabral voyage of 1500,
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Christians in,
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envoy to Gama,
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envoy to Portugal,
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Gama and,
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Kolattiri (king) of,
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Nova’s mission and,
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Portuguese alliance with,
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Portuguese factor,
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Portuguese fort,
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spice trade and,
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war with Calicut,
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Cantino, Alberto,
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Cão, Diogo,
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Cape of Good Hope

Cabral rounding and death of Dias,
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Dias voyage and,
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Gama’s voyages,
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Cape Verde Islands,
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Casas, Bartolemé de las,
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Catarina de Ataíde,
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bestows Lord of Guinea on Afonso V,
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bulls granted to Portugal,
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call for new Crusade (1454),
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corruption in,
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demarcation line for Spain and Portugal,
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Elizabeth I excommunicated,
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excommunication of Venice,
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failure to defend Constantinople,
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forced conversions of St. Thomas Christians,
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Great Schism,
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Henry the Navigator and,
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Inquisition in Portugal,
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Islamic threat to,
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League of Cambrai,
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mysteries of Islam and,
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Ottoman Empire and,
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papacy,
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papacy and the Crusades,
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Portuguese alliance with,
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prohibition against trade with Islamic world,
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reprisals against Venice,
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schism with Orthodox church,
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slavery and slave trade,
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Sultan’s ultimatum to,
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war against Islam and,
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Ceuta,
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al-Qaeda and,
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Monte Hacho,
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Portuguese atrocities in,
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Portuguese Crusade,
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Portuguese occupation of,
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in recent years,
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Seven Peaks,
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Ceylon,
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Charlemagne,
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Charles I of Spain (Emperor Charles V),
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Magellan and,
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rivalry with Francis I of France,
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Charles IV of France,
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Charles Martel “the Hammer,”
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Chaucer, Geoffrey,
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Chaul, India,
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China,
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Calicut and,
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Christianity reaches,
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as economic force,
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European merchants reach,
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Jesuits in,
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loss of sea power, 15th century,
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Malacca and,
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Marco Polo and,
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opium for tea,
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Portuguese trade established,
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ships of (junks),
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sinking of Portuguese ships and execution of envoys,
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trade by,
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Zheng He and treasure boats,
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Christianity

Arianism,
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in China,
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conversion of Africans and,
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conversion of the East and,
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Copts,
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East (Asia), view of,
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in Ethiopia,
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as European faith,
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forced conversions,
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fundamentalism,
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Great Schism,
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Iberians as zealots,
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in India,
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Islam compared to,
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Islamic repression of,
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Jerusalem and,
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just war and,
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Monothelitism,
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Mozarabs and,
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nature of Christ,
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Nestorian,
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as People of the Book,
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in Persia,
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relics found by Helena,
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relics in Constantinople,
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relics in monastery of St. Catherine,
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“Rice Christians” and,
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saints, spicy smell of,
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seaborne trade as means of undermining Islam,
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spices, use of,
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superstition in,
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Syriac,
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war against Islam,
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(
see also
Crusades; Portugal)

Clement V, Pope,
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Cochin,
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Cabral’s voyage of 1500 and,
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first European fort in India at,
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Gama and,
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Jewish merchants in,
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Nova’s Indian mission and,
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raja, Unni Goda Varma,
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spice trade and,
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treaty with Portuguese,
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war with Calicut,
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Coelho, Nicolau,
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on Anjediva,
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Cabral and,
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in Calicut,
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as captain,
Berrio
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encounter with pirates,
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in Malindi,
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in Mozambique,
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report to the king,
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rewards for voyage of 1497,
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Coimbra, João de,
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Columbus, Bartholomew,
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Columbus, Christopher,
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as Admiral of the Ocean Sea,
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atrocities by men,
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conditions of,
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disasters befalling,
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Ferdinand and Isabella backing,
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funding for,
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Gama outshines,
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idea to sail west to the East,
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imprisonment of,
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journal of,
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landing in New World,
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marriage of,
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miscalculations by,
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need for proof of Indies,
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Panama and,
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piety and religious writing,
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voyage of 1492,
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voyage of 1493,
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voyage of 1498,
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waning of star,
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Comoros Islands,
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Constantine the Great,
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Constantinople,
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Battle of Manzikert,
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Battle of Myriocephalum,
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exodus of books and scholars,
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Fourth Crusade and razing of,
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Hagia Sophia,
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Hippodrome,
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holy relics in,
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Islamic threat to,
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the Mese,
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Mongols and,
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Ottoman conquest,
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request for Rome’s help against the Turks,
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Roman identity of,
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spice trade and,
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Turks defeat,
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Contarini, Gasparo,
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