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— Understanding the past through primary sources, analysis, and debateHow three colonial powers gained – and then lost – control over the straits of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb
Zheng He's fleets reached Hormuz around 1414 without a single colony; a century later Portugal took the same strait by force and started charging ships to pass. The Strait of Hormuz standoff between the US and Iran is just the newest round in a fight over these waters that's been running for over 600 years.
— via The Conversation — History, Ibrahim Al-Marashi, IE School of Humanities, IE University; California State University San Marcos
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