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The Cape Route: How Bartolomeu Dias Opened the Indian Ocean
Before Vasco da Gama, before the Portuguese armadas that shattered the old Indian Ocean trading world, there was one man, one ship, and one terrifying stretch of water. In this episode, Lucas and Luna tell the story of Bartolomeu Dias, the late-fifteenth-century navigator who first rounded the Cape of Good Hope. They trace his 1487-88 expedition along the African coast, the mysterious stone padrões he left behind, the storm that blew him around the Cape without him knowing it, and the crucial moment when his crew forced him to turn back just short of the Indian Ocean. They also consider what…
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