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Uncommon card · History
Afonso de Albuquerque, an Uncommon card
Afonso de Albuquerque, 1st Duke of Goa, was a Portuguese general, admiral, statesman, and conquistador.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 79
- DEF
- 91
- Power
- 170
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 130,000
Power 170 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He served as viceroy of Portuguese India from 1509 to 1515, during which he expanded Portuguese influence across the Indian Ocean and built a reputation as a fierce and skilled military commander.
- Albuquerque advanced the three-fold Portuguese grand scheme of combating Islam, spreading Christianity, and securing the trade of spices by establishing a Portuguese Asian empire.
- Among his achievements, Albuquerque managed to conquer Goa and was the first European of the Renaissance to raid the Persian Gulf, and he led the first voyage by a European fleet into the Red Sea.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Afonso de Albuquerque article was read about 130,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 79 and blocks with 91: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get Afonso de Albuquerque
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Afonso de Albuquerque (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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