Re: New shuttle

The main reason, though is probably because the Venetians had control of the land route.  Portugal
was looking for a cheaper route that would bypass Venice.

--- rsetzer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Not to mention that it was a bandit magnet. I suppose a shipping route 
> would be as well, but you can carry more in ships and they are easier to 
> defend.
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> [email protected] wrote:
> >>The world was not supposed to be round. 
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> > Actually, the complaint of the British was not that the world was flat, it was that it was
> bigger around than Columbus had calculated.  They were right.  His calculations were whack.
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> >>There was not supposed to be a land route to China. 
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> > Say what?  The Silk Road was around for a while.  The problem with the purely land route to
> China was mainly A) It was expensive and B) It ran through several plague breeding grounds.
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> >>The Soz were not supposed to ever win another series. 
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> > The Soz?
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