Truffle Races
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The Truffle Races, also known as the Truffle Wars, were a series of conflicts between Caphiria and Burgundie in the late-Renaissance period to locate, cultivate, and harvest rare truffles around the world. etc etc etc
It saw a massive investment in the Imperial Naval Fleet and merchant marine of Caphiria and likewise the various navies of the coastal Latium and their merchant fleets/trading companies. It largely faded out as a specific conflict when the Burgoignesc duchies shifted their focus to colonization and generalized raw material extraction as opposed to resource-specific forays.
In the Levantine sphere it saw the introduction of galleons which eventually overtook carracks as the primary ship for overseas navigation.