1. Islamic Maritime World
By: Eli Adams

2. Movement of Islam Arab traders in Southern China, 18ce.
Also reached East Indies around that time.
Due to strong Indian influence, the had minimum impact on native religions.
Islam rested in port cities and worked its way slowly inland.
Spanish found Muslims on the island of Mindanao, they where labeled as pirates.
Kingdoms' looked to Islam to counter the powerful Christians.

3. Swahili Coast Muslims governed the east African port cities.
Portuguese began to trade here in the 15th century.
During this time, native people relocated in great numbers due to drought.
Trading ports where separated by rough terrain, plus they where competing with each other.
Forest Products, Ivory and Bergris where very popular.
2.1 million slaves where exported between

4. Ports and Probs
Malindi was the only port that Portugal had not conquered North of the Mozambique.
Portuguese favored this port, because it led to a great fall in business for Kilwa and Mombasa ports.
Portugal Power suffered a bad loss when the Arabs of Oman captured their Arabian fortress at Musqat, then went on to capture the Portuguese capital in East Africa, Mombasa.

5. Maritime Empire of the Oman
Once they captured the Portuguese Fort and Capital of the area, they began to open up their trading.
Had better relations with the native people of the land.
The mixing of the diverse languages, culture, and people form the Swahili culture that is there today.
Islam was spread to Sudan in this time although the people of the Swahili coast had no contact with them.

6. Dutch East India Was ran by Governing Generals
-stopped at nothing to maintain their monopoly, could also order the assassination of employees, smugglers and anyone else who treated their rule
Under Governing Generals the Dutch fought a series of wars.
- They fought the Acheh and other Kingdoms on Sumatra and Java.
-During , the Dutch capital, Batavia, on java was besieged by fifty ships of the Sultan of Mataram. The dutch dug in and eventually overtook them. Mainly because the Sultan couldn’t get a resupply from the English

7. Muslim awaking in Morroco
Spain and Portugal had both captured forts in Morocco and where planning to start shipping out of them.
The Sa’adi Family led a resistance against them; they won at the battle of al-Qasr al-Kabir in 1578.
Ahmad al-Mansur, the sultan, brought the lands independence back.
By the 17th century British records state that “the Sally Rovers” came from the port of Sale, and sacked Europeans ships as far as Britain itself.

8. Fighting for the Best
The Portuguese had many strategic island ports in the East Indies.
Through the Dutch East India Company, the Dutch captured many of these ports for their self.
While the Portuguese focused on the spice trade, the Dutch focused on the islands that produce the spices.
The Dutch took all of Portugal's towns besides Ambon and Timor.

9. Visuals

10. New Methods
Once other countries started to notice the Dutch’s tactic at being so successful in the trade, they began to do it too.
Once this occurred in the 18th century, the Dutch began to produce the demanded products on their conquered territory.
The Dutch also located a group of strong winds that blow between 40 and 50 degrees latitude year round.
They named these winds the “ Roarin’ Forties” and they pushed Dutch ships to Australia.