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{ The Portuguese Trading Empire Notes –

  Portugal took the lead in European exploration.   In 1420, Prince Henry the Navigator sponsored Portuguese fleets that sailed along the western coast of Africa.   They found gold. Europeans called the southern coast of west Africa the Gold Coast. Prince Henry the Navigator

  In 1488, Bartholomeu Dias rounded the tip of Africa looking for a route to India.   Vasco da Gama made the trip to the port of Calcutta in India in He took a cargo of spices and returned to make a profit of several thousand percent. The route became well-traveled. Getting Around Africa…

  From Melaka, the Portuguese made expeditions to China and the Moluccas, known as the Spice Islands.   In the Spice Islands they signed a treaty with a local ruler for the purchase and export of cloves to Europe.   This treaty gave Portugal control of the spice trade. Its trading empire was complete.   Portugal had neither the power, people or desire to colonize Asian regions, however. The Spice Islands…

  Portuguese fleets took control of spice trade from the Muslims by force.   In 1510, Admiral Alfonso de Albuquerque set up a Portuguese port at Goa, on the western coast of India.   He then sailed on to Melaka on the Malay Peninsula. This was a thriving port for the spice trade. Europeans in India…

  Why did Alfonso de Albuquerque want control of Melaka?   It would help destroy Arab control of the spice trade and provide the Portuguese a way station on the route to the Spice Islands. Question of the day #1…

  Why was the spice trade so lucrative?   The European diet was fairly uniform and bland and the East had a hold on the European imagination. Question of the day #2…