What broke the Islamic world’s business model? | FT #shorts

For centuries, trade routes through the Islamic world underpinned global commerce. But two voyages at the end of the 15th century — Vasco da Gama’s route to India and Christopher Columbus’s journey across the Atlantic — reshaped global trade and left that business model behind.⁠

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