21. Controlling the choke point: Spain's dominance of the Caribbean
From today's perspective, it's hard to see the power Spain held over the Americas in the 1500s. It would be like America preventing any other nation from travelling to the moon.
Authors note: Recently I lost the use of my laptop so with that issue finally resolved, this latest article arrives slightly later than I had scheduled.
The great obsession: finding a route to Asia
As European explorers gradually came to the realization that the lands first encountered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 and then by subsequent explorers were …
