Twelve Gold Ducats Bought Portugal's Most Guarded Map
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Twelve Gold Ducats Bought Portugal's Most Guarded Map

A Portuguese royal cartographer secretly sold his country's most guarded maps to a foreign power—and the man he sold them to used them to rename half the world.

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