Hendrik Strauss’s Reviews > Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire > Status Update

The beginning of gunboat diplomacy. Not having a background in comparative medieval studies, and having read numbers about the differences in economic output and population sizes, it is truly hard to comprehend just how much of an impact the carracks, caravels and large canons of the Portuguese had, allowing them to carve out way more influence than by any imagination apart from shizo crusade they could have expected