There tiny islands - the only area producing cloves - caused Christopher Columbus to sail from Spain to the west to find them. He discovered something else; Amerika (1492). - Generations of Portuguese sailors tried hard to reach the same islands by looking for a passage south of Afrika and finally arrived in the Moluccas in 1511. Francis Xavier also endeavored hard to reach these islets, - not …
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