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ESTP · The Age of Exploration

The datu of Mactan who read a landing beach better than the man who had crossed the Pacific.

ISTP · The Age of Exploration

Magellan's enslaved interpreter, promised freedom in a will — arguably the first man to circle the world.

ESTJ · The Age of Exploration

The inspector general who mutinied on a point of procedure and was marooned on a barren shore for it.

ESFP · The Age of Exploration

The gentleman-tourist whose notebook is the only reason the first circumnavigation exists as a story.

ISTP · The Age of Exploration

The mutineer who finished Magellan's voyage: eighteen men, one leaking ship, and the long way home through enemy water.

INTJ · The Age of Exploration

He held a strait no chart showed against two crowns and a mutiny — then died on a beach he could not read.

INTP · The Age of Exploration

The cosmographer who supplied the theory that sold Magellan's voyage, was cut from it, and went mad.

ESFJ · The Portuguese Indian Ocean

Raised in confinement, regent of Portugal, mother of nine children who all died before her.

INTP · The Portuguese Indian Ocean

The converso physician who taught Europe what Indian medicine knew, and was exhumed and burned twelve years after his death.

INFP · The Portuguese Indian Ocean

The one-eyed poet who swam ashore holding his epic, and wrote the empire's greatest objection into its greatest praise.

ISTJ · The Portuguese Indian Ocean

The ledger king who audited an empire, colonised Brazil, and let the Inquisition into Portugal.

ENFJ · The Portuguese Indian Ocean

The Jesuit who baptised until his arm ached, redesigned his method for Japan — and asked for the Inquisition in Goa.

ESTP · The Portuguese Indian Ocean

The Hindu privateer who handed Albuquerque the city that became Portuguese Asia's capital, and was discarded within two years.

ENTP · The Portuguese Indian Ocean

The slave-born governor of Diu who kept his city by never fully committing to anyone.

ESTP · The Portuguese Indian Ocean

The viceroy's son who would not leave a grounded ship at Chaul — and whose death produced the victory at Diu.

ESTJ · The Portuguese Indian Ocean

The first Viceroy of India, who insisted power should stay afloat, avenged his son at Diu, and died in a beach skirmish.

INTJ · The Portuguese Indian Ocean

The strategist who looked at an ocean and saw a diagram — Goa, Hormuz, Malacca, and a plan to divert the Nile.

ESTP · The Portuguese Indian Ocean

Gama's uncle, who abandoned his post to plunder and drowned for it — now the earliest European wreck found in the Indian Ocean.

ISTP · The Portuguese Indian Ocean

The technician who held Cochin at fifty to one with tidal ambushes, then died forgotten and poor.

ISFP · The Portuguese Indian Ocean

The clerk whose one letter announcing Brazil became the founding document of Brazilian literature.

ISFJ · The Portuguese Indian Ocean

The dutiful subordinate who found Brazil by accident, avenged Calicut, and vanished for twenty years when passed over.

ENTP · The Portuguese Indian Ocean

The Polish Jew turned Goan captive turned royal interpreter, baptised at the end of a torture session.

INTP · The Portuguese Indian Ocean

The master navigator who codified the Indian Ocean — and was falsely blamed for piloting Vasco da Gama into it.

ESTJ · The Portuguese Indian Ocean

The ruler of the world's richest spice port, who met a demand for monopoly he could not rationally grant.

ISTJ · The Portuguese Indian Ocean

The navigator who opened the Cape route by taking a royal instruction literally — and burned a ship of pilgrims to prove it.

ESFJ · The Portuguese Indian Ocean

The Fortunate — who ran his predecessor's empire on pageantry, and expelled Portugal's Jews to buy a Spanish bride.

INTP · The Conquest of Mexico

The Aristotelian scholar who argued for natural slavery and lost the argument in practice.

ENFJ · The Conquest of Mexico

The encomendero turned reformer who spent fifty years fighting the system he had profited from.

ISTJ · The Conquest of Mexico

The last tlatoani, who held the causeways ninety-three days and would not name the gold.

INFJ · The Conquest of Mexico

The friar whose one Advent sermon in 1511 planted the seed of Las Casas's conversion.

ISFJ · The Conquest of Mexico

The foot soldier who wrote a true history decades later to correct the official one.

ENTJ · The Conquest of Mexico

The Texcocan prince whose 50,000 warriors made the siege of Tenochtitlan possible.

ESTP · The Conquest of Mexico

The Tlaxcalan general who fought Cortés hardest, then was hanged for opposing the alliance with him.

INTJ · The Conquest of Mexico

The enslaved interpreter whose voice and judgment shaped the conquest of Mexico.

ISTJ · The Conquest of Mexico

The shipwrecked friar who kept his faith through eight years of captivity and became Cortés's translator.

ISFP · The Conquest of Mexico

The shipwrecked Spaniard who became a Maya war chief and refused Cortés's call to return.

ISFJ · The Conquest of Mexico

Moctezuma's daughter, married five times, who carried the Mexica dynasty into colonial New Spain.

ESTJ · The Conquest of Mexico

The tenth tlatoani who expelled Cortés from Tenochtitlan and died of smallpox eighty days later.

ESTP · The Conquest of Mexico

The young lord of Texcoco arrested for urging his uncle Moctezuma to fight the Spanish.

INFJ · The Conquest of Mexico

The ninth tlatoani whose reforming reign gave way to paralysis before Cortés's arrival.

ESTJ · The Conquest of Mexico

The by-the-book commander sent to arrest Cortés, defeated, then lost at sea off Florida.

ESTP · The Conquest of Mexico

Cortés's golden, charming lieutenant whose Templo Mayor massacre triggered the Aztec uprising.

ENTP · The Conquest of Mexico

The conquistador whose improvised legal fictions and gambles brought down an empire.

ESTJ · The Conquest of Mexico

The governor of Cuba who commissioned Cortés's expedition and spent his last years trying to reclaim it.

ESTP · The Aztec Empire

The tlatoani who pushed the empire to its widest reach and died of the flood he ordered.

INFJ · The Aztec Empire

The exiled poet-king of Texcoco who built a dike, a legal code, and verses to an imageless god.

INTJ · The Aztec Empire

The power behind five thrones — architect of Mexica ideology, law, and the flower wars.

ENTJ · The Aztec Empire

The Mexica king who broke Tepanec vassalage and burned the old histories to write a new one.

INFP · The Age of Exploration

The court chronicler who coined "New World" before anyone agreed what to call it.

INTP · The Age of Exploration

The cartographer whose map put "America" on paper, then quietly took it off again.

ENTP · The Age of Exploration

The navigator whose letters convinced Europe it had found a new continent, not a shortcut to Asia.

ISTP · The Age of Exploration

The mapmaker who owned Columbus's flagship, then drew the first chart of the New World.

ESTP · The Age of Exploration

The Italian who pitched England instead of Spain, found Newfoundland, and vanished chasing more.

INTP · The Age of Exploration

The Florentine cosmographer whose flawed map gave Columbus just enough false confidence to sail.

ESTJ · The Age of Exploration

The elderly governor who beheaded his own son-in-law and built an empire on paperwork.

ESTP · The Age of Exploration

The stowaway who waded into the Pacific in full armor and was beheaded by his own family.

ESTP · The Age of Exploration

The Taino cacique who fled to warn Cuba, then refused a heaven that held Spaniards.

ISTP · The Age of Exploration

The conquistador of Puerto Rico who died leading from the front in Florida.

ESTJ · The Age of Exploration

The governor who systematized the encomienda and lured a queen's host to her death with a feast.

ENFJ · The Age of Exploration

The poet-cacica whose hospitality was used to destroy her people.