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alliance with Persians,
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as cartographers,
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convivencia
and,
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as descendants of Abraham,
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,
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exodus from Spain,
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forced conversions,
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,
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Gaspar da Gama as,
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Islamic repression of,
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in Istanbul under Ottomans,
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Kahina “the Prophetess,”
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,
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Lisbon massacre,
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marrano
(secret Jew),
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,
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as People of the Book,
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,
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in Portugal,
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,
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,
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in Spain,
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in Toledo, synagogue of,
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,
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Joanna the Mad of Castile,
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Joan of Castile (Beltraneja),
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John I of Portugal,
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John II of Portugal,
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Columbus and,
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conversion of Africans and,
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Covilhã and Paiva and,
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Covilhã’s dispatch,
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,
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death of,
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death of son, Afonso,
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,
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,
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Dias expedition (1487),
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exploration and,
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heir, Manuel,
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,
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Jewish advisors and envoys,
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,
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,
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,
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as Machiavellian ruler,
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Manuel I’s reburial of,
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murders by,
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search for Prester John,
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,
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,
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,
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sea route to Asia sought,
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ships built for Gama’s voyage,
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treaty with Spain on new lands,
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John III, King of Portugal,
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,
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Vasco de Gama and,
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,
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John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster,
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,
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John of Montecorvino,
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,
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John the Fearless of France,
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John XXIII, Pope,
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Joinville, Jean de,
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Jordan of Sévérac,
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,
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Kahina “the Prophetess,”
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Kappad, India,
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Kilwa, Africa,
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Knights Hospitaller,
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Knights Templar,
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,
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African exploration (1445),
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crosses of,
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,
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as Order of Christ,
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Philip the Fair’s charges,
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power of, in Europe,
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Temples of,
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Kublai Khan,
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Laccadives,
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Lancaster, Sir James,
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Las Navas de Tolosa, Battle of,
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League of Cambrai,
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Leonardo da Vinci,
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Leonor Teles,
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Lepanto, Battle of,
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Lewis, Bernard,
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Linschoten, Jan Huygen van,
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Lisbon, Portugal,
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Alfama district,
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Castle of St. George,
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Columbus lands in,
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as commercial center,
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Ethiopian envoys in,
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Italian merchants in,
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Jews massacred,
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,
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Manuel I’s rebuilding,
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papal bull of 1454 and,
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siege of,
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Lombards,
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Lopes, Tomé,
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Mîrî
massacre,
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,
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López de Gómara, Francisco,
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Louise of Savoy,
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Louis IX, King of France,
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Lourenço, Fernão,
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Lusiads
(Camões),
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Lydwine of Schiedam, St.,
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Macau,
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Madagascar,
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Madeira,
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Mafia Island,
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Magellan, Ferdinand,
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Ma Huan,
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Maimonides (Musa ibn Maymun),
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Malabar Coast,
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Christianity reaches,
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monsoons and,
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pepper growing and,
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piracy along,
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,
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ports of,
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,
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Portuguese elimination of Muslims along,
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Malacca,
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Maldives,
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Malindi,
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Cabral’s mission of 1500 and,
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envoy from,
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Gama and,
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,
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pillar erected by Gama,
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Malta,
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Mansa Musa,
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Manuel I of Portugal,
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ambitions unfulfilled,
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Belém church and monastery,
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Cabral’s mission,
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character and personality,
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conversion of East and,
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conversion of the Jews,
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Crusade to recapture Jerusalem,
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crusading message to Muslims and pagans,
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death of,
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death penalty for revealing sea route,
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divine mandate to fight Islam,
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exhumation of John II,
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Ferdinand and Isabella as in-laws,
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forts in India ordered by,
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Gama and,
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,
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as heir to Castile,
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holy war against the Turks and,
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Indian enterprises,
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Inquisition in Portugal and,
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letters on Gama’s success,
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letter to Venice, demanding spices be bought from Portugal,
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Lisbon rebuilding by,
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marriage to Isabella,
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marriage to Maria,
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Moroccan Crusade debacle,
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North Atlantic exploration,
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Nova’s mission to India,
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papal bull of 1514 and,
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Pietro Pasqualigo and,
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search for Prester John,
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,
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showing off magnificence,
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Viceroy of India appointed,
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war against Moroccans,
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Mappilas,
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maps and mapmaking

Africa depicted on,
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Cape Bojador on,
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Catalan Atlas (1375),
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Dias expedition and redrawing of,
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Fra Mauro’s,
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Gama’s voyages and,
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Garden of Eden on,
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Jerusalem at center of the world,
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mappae mundi
,
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Marco Polo and,
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Prester John and,
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Ptolemy’s
Geography
and,
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revisions in 15th century,
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scriptural geographers,
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Southern Hemisphere absent from,
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world-is-flat myth,
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world map of Henry Martellus,
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world maps,
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Marchionni, Bartolomeo,
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Marinids,
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Marinus of Tyre,
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Martins, Fernão (canon),
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Martins, Fernão (interpreter),
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Mauro of Venice, Fra,
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Mayr, Hans,
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Mecca,
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Jeddah (port),
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medicine

ambergris and,
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aromatics, use of,
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four humors and,
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gems, semiprecious stones, and,
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odd apothecary goods,
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spices, use of,
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,
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Medina,
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Mediterranean region,
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Mehmet the Conqueror,
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Mendes, Diogo,
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Mendes de Brito, Rui,
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Meneses, Duarte de,
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Meneses, Jorge Teles de,
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Meneses, Luís de,
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Michelangelo,
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Middle Ages,
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Mîrî
massacre,
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,
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,
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children taken off,
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hunchbacked pilot of,
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looting of,
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,
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Mocquet, Jean,
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Mogadishu,
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Moluccas.
See
Spice Islands

Mombasa,
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,
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,
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,
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razing, and Portuguese fort built,
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Monçaide (merchant of Tunis),
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,
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