# The Cape-route state attempts to redirect spice as a crown-monopoly sea

Date: 1503

## The fact

Printed Décadas describe guns used to force spice into Portuguese bottoms. The dated carrier is that chronicle. Industrial-policy-by-[cannon](/people/aileen-cannon) is the path of medium confidence on unique volumes.

It is one event.

## Context

Not a modern tariff schedule. A printed monopoly-by-force is still an industrial-extraction heading.

[Vasco da Gama](/people/vasco-da-gama) Shared work with other named actors remains in the record.

Vasco da Gama’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Conventional years are c. 1460s–1524.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Library of Congress — later Décadas da Ásia and Portuguese India print and Journal of Economic History — later spice-route studies independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Library of Congress — later Décadas da Ásia and Portuguese India print (https://www.loc.gov/; Library of Congress).

## Significance

Printed spice-force is not a 1502 bill of lading series.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Vasco da Gama.

They are not a public rating.

The driver `industrial-policy-activism` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Vasco da Gama did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Driver `industrial-policy-activism` is attached because the Significance sentence names a mechanism from The Cape-route state attempts to redirect spice as a crown-monopoly sea at 1503-01-01, not because a standing driver list needed coverage. Official page: https://www.loc.gov/. Independent page: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-economic-history.

## People

- Vasco da Gama: https://factrail.ai/people/vasco-da-gama

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism

## Sources

- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-economic-history
- https://www.loc.gov/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/vdg-spice-monopoly-claim