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| Prince Henry the "Navigator" |
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(1394-1460)
Motives for exploration: 1) Finding another Christian kingdom that can act as an ally against the Muslims 2)Trading opportunities for the Portuguese 3) Extending Christianity
He had also founded a school for navigators |
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Portuguese Explorers reached Cape Verde and brought back many Africans
Many were sold as slaves to the wealthy
Within a few years, approxiamtely 1000 slaves were shipped from Cape Verde to Lisbon |
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Portuguese discovered new source of old along the southern coast of the hump of West Africa
Established contact with the state of Bakongo
To facilate trade in gold,ivory and slaves, the Portuguese leased land from local rulers and built stone forts along the coast |
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(1488)
He rounded the Cape of Good Hope but couldn't continue further because he feared mutiny from his crew |
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Ten years after Batholomeu Dias, he rounded the cape of Good Hope
He stopped at many ports controlled by Muslim merchants
He then crossed into the Arabian sea and reached Calicut, India |
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| Southwestern Indian port where the explorer Vasco da Gama stopped at on his journey looking for spices on May 18, 1498. It became a factor in the Portuguese domination of the spice trade. |
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| As Portugual strengthened its monopoly of the spice trade, it destroyed Arabic and Indian shipping as a consequence. In 1509,a combined fleet of Turkish and Indian ships were smashed by a Portuguese fleet. The fleet then imposed a blockade on the entrance of the Red Sea to cut of the flow of spices to the Muslim rulers of Egypt. |
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| Admiral Alfonso de Albuquerque |
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| (c. 1462-1515) Set up a port at the Indian city of Goa, on the western coast of India. In 1511, he sailed to Malacca on the Malay Peninsula. After a bloody battle with the Muslims, the Portuguese seized the city destroyed the Arabic spice trade. |
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| Major port in the spice trade on the Malay Peninsula that was controlled by the Muslim spice traders before falling to the Portuguese. The Portuguese only had two purposes for seizing the port: it would destroy the Arabic spice trade and it would open the door for more Portuguese expeditions to the Spice Islands and China. |
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| Also known as the Moluccas they are an achipelago in Indonesia. The Spice Islands were where Asian spices came from during the 13th-14th century. When Portugual acquired them, the islands completed the Portuguese trading empire. |
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