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Portugal controlled the spice trade between Europe and Asia.
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Portuguese seize islands of Goa to make a military/commercial base.
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Portuguese built a trading empire with military and merchant outposts.
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Portuguese built trading empire in South East Asia.
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Portugal takes Island of Malacca under Albuquerque.
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Magellan has claimed the archipelago the Philippines for Spain.
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Spain had colonized the Philippine Islands.
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Netherlands was part of the Holy Roman Empire, later Protestant Northern Provinces wanted independence.
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Mughal empire started and for 200 years it was peaceful, prosperous, and string. King Affonso I writes a complaint letter to King John III of Portugal.
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Dutch return with ships from Asia leading to an increase in overseas trading.
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A group of wealth 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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The growing power of England and France contributed to the decline of the Dutch trading empire in the East.
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The British and the French had become locked in a bitter struggle for global power.
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Britain has used its great wealth to dominate much of India.
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The Dutch maintained an empire in Indonesia.
