And you don’t need to control all of Arabia or Zanzibar trade area. This means that all that spice trade from Indonesia and the riches of India can flow directly to Cape.
Quick review of trade and colonization in 1.26 patch / Dharma DLC
If you want to see which policies were changed in the new patch, you can check that here. We will also explore the possibility of taking naval or maritime ideas as they aren’t used often and now they have some good policies attached to them. So for this guide, we are going to concentrate on those two aspects of game and not worry too much about Europe. Portugal has one of the strongest national ideas for trade and colonization.