Alexandru's Reviews > Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire

I am on a bit of a Crowley binge after Empires of the Sea I jumped straight into Conquerors. This book is just as fun to read as the previous one, the story of the creation of the Portuguese Empire is absolutely unbelievable. A band of explorers and adventurers like Vasco da Gama and Albuquerque managed in just a a few short years to create an Portuguese Empire ranging from the coast of Africa to the Straits of Hormuz, the coast of India and the Straits of Malacca. They managed against all odds to defeat the far more numerous Mamluks, the Sultan of Bijapur or Sultan of Malacca. This book has everything from great exploration journeys to sea battles and sieges. The only downside is that the book is only about the foundation of the Portuguese Empire and basically ends in 1515. Would have loved to know more about the age of exploration and the battles of the Portuguese against the Ottoman Empire.