Spice Trade

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  • 50

    in less than 50 years

    Portuguese built a trading empire with military and merchant.
  • 50

    within about 50 years

    Spain had conqured and colonized the phillipine islands.
  • 1500

    1500s

    Portugal controlled spice trade between Europe and Asia.
  • 1500

    early 1500s

    Netherlands was part of holy Roman Empire's later protestant independent.
  • 1510

    1510

    The Portuguese seized the island of Goa to make it a military/commercial base.
  • 1511

    1511

    Portugal takes of Malacca under Albuquerque.
  • 1521

    1521

    Magellan had claimed the Archipeglo for Spain.
  • 1526

    1526

    Mughal Empires started and for 200 years it was peaceful.
  • 1540

    1520-1560

    Portuguese built trading empire in SE Asia.

  • 1599

    dutch return with ships from Asia leading to an increase in overseas trade.

  • 1602

    a group of wealthy dutch merchands formed the dutch East India company.

  • 1641

    dutch captured Malacca from the Portuguese.

  • Mid 1700s

    the British and the french had become locked in a battle struggle.

  • late 1700s

    Britian has used it grate well to dominate much of India.

  • 1700s

    the growing power of England and France contributed to the decline of the dutch trading Empire in the East.

  • 1900s

    the Dutch maintained an Empire in India.