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Period: 1500 to
Portugal controlled the spice trade between Europe and Asia
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Period: 1500 to 1550
Netherlands was part of the HRE, later northern protestant states wanted independence
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1510
Portuguese seized the island of Goa
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Period: 1510 to 1560
Portuguese built a trading empire in South East Asia.
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1511
The Portuguese took the East Indies port of Malacca
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Period: 1511 to 1561
In less than 50 years
Portuguese had built a trading empire with military and merchant outposts. -
1521
Magellan had claimed the archipelago of the Philippines
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Period: 1521 to 1571
Within 50 years
Spain had conquered and colonized the Philippines -
1526
Mughal Empire started and for 200 years it was peaceful, King Affonso I wrote a letter to King John III of Portugal.
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A Dutch fleet returns to Amsterdam from Asia after more than a years absence, it returned with spices.
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A group of wealthy Dutch merchants formed the Dutch East India Company
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The Dutch captured Malacca from the Portuguese and opened trade with China
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In the 1700's
The growing power of England and France contributed to the decline of the Dutch trading empire in the East. -
Mid 1700's
The British and the French had become locked in a bitter struggle for power. -
Late 1700's
Britain has used its great wealth to dominate much of India -
The Dutch maintained an empire in Indonesia.
