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The Weapons
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most important ports were the Arabian Gulf
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but through the canons of the Advanced
European Weapons at that time, against
the Asian technology that returns back to
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huge ships with its power to cross the seas
and the fire weapons on its deck in wars
became the master of seas in the Indian
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