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Portuguese seized port of Goa on
the coast India and made it a major military and commercial -
Portugal built trading empire with military and merchant outposts
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Portuguese took the port of Malacca under Afonso de Albuquerque
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Magellan claimed the archipelago of the Philippines for Spain
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Spain conquers and colonizes the Philippines
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The Netherlands was part of the Holy Roman Empire in the early 1500's, but then the protestant northern province gained independence and flourished.
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The Mughal Empire began and had 200 years of peace, prosperity, and strength. King Afonso I of the Kongo wrote complaint letter to King John III of Portugal about the slave trade.
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Portugal controlled the spice trade between Asia and Europe
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A dutch fleet returned to Amsterdam from Asia bearing spices which lead to an increase in overseas trade
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A group of wealthy dutch merchants formed the Dutch East India company, which was the first corporation to hold full sovereign powers.
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The Dutch capture Malacca from the Portuguese and open trade with China
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The British and the French became locked in a bitter struggle for global power
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The growing power of England and France lead to the decline of the Dutch trading empire
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Britain uses its wealth to dominate most of India
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The Dutch maintain an empire in Indonesia
