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What is an interesting fact that you recently discovered? (pawb.social)

submitted 7 months ago by Interstellar_1@pawb.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Before it got to that part, I also learned that Vasco da Gama, who led the initial demands on Calicut, was a short tempered psycopath and violent maniac hell bent on teaching “those muslims” a lesson.

Kicked out of his command because instead of establishing a trading post in Calicut he bombarded the city for two days when they refused to expel their Muslim population.