Griffin Rowe examines Vasco da Gama's 1502 return to India with twenty warships, revealing how Portugal's age of exploration became an age of armed dominance. The episode traces the bombardment of Calicut and explores how commercial empire was built on systematic naval coercion, not consensual trade.

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