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Period: 1501 to
Most of the 1500s
Portugal controlled the spice trade between Europe and Asia. -
1510
1510
Portuguese seize islands of Goa to make a military/commercial base. -
Period: 1510 to 1560
In Less than 50 years
Portuguese built a trading empire with military and merchant outposts. -
Period: 1510 to 1560
1510-1560
Portuguese built trading empire in South East Asia. -
1511
1511
Portugal takes Island of Malacca under Albuquerque. -
1521
1521
Magellan has claimed the archipelago the Philippines for Spain. -
Period: 1521 to 1571
Within about 50 years
Spain had colonized the Philippine Islands. -
1525
Early 1500s
Netherlands was part of the Holy Roman Empire, later Protestant Northern Provinces wanted independence. -
1526
1526
Mughal empire started and for 200 years it was peaceful, prosperous, and string. King Affonso I writes a complaint letter to King John III of Portugal. -
1599
Dutch return with ships from Asia leading to an increase in overseas trading. -
1602
A group of wealth Dutch merchants formed the Dutch East India company. -
1641
The Dutch captured Malacca from the Portuguese and opened trade with China. -
Period: to
In the 1700s
The growing power of England and France contributed to the decline of the Dutch trading empire in the East. -
Mid 1700s
The British and the French had become locked in a bitter struggle for global power. -
Late 1700s
Britain has used its great wealth to dominate much of India. -
1900
The Dutch maintained an empire in Indonesia.
