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Most of the 1500s Portugal controls the spice trade between Europe and Asia
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In the early 1500s Netherlands was part of the Roman Holy Empire, later protestant Northern Provinces won independence
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Portuguese seize the island of Goa, to make it a military and commercial base.
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Portuguese builds a trading empire in South East Asia from 1510-1560
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Portuguese take over the port of Malacca in East Indies, and massacred all the Muslims
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Magellan claimed the archipelago for Spain and named it the Philippines. Named it after Spanish king Philip the 2nd.
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In less than 50 years the Portuguese had built a trading empire with military and merchant outposts
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Mughal empire started and for 200 years it was peaceful, prosperous, and strong
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Spain conquered and colonized the Philippine Islands
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Dutch ships return from Asia full of spices after a years absence. This led to an increase in overseas trade.
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Wealthy Dutch merchants formed the Dutch East India Company
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Dutch captured Malacca from 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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British and France become locked in a bitter struggle for global power
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Britain had used its great wealth to dominate most of India
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Dutch maintained an empire in Indonesia
