Quote Originally Posted by Croverus View Post
Spoiler: Portugal
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With the establishment of Turfan, thus marks as far east as the Mongolians promised to settle to the previous rulers of Portugal. Incense is a precious resource to us and we wanted to secure as much of it as possible. It held little interest to the previous rulers or Portugal. If your people do crave it at some point we are of course happy to trade excess for any luxuries we have not begun importing from other lands. We are always eager willing to trade.
Spoiler: To Mongolia
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That IS a bit close for our liking, but at least it makes setting up trade caravans between our cities relatively effortless, and making them quite easily defendable against highwaymen. Welcome to the neighbourhood.