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Portugal controlled spice trade between Europe and Asia Provinces want independence
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Portuguese seize land of Goa to make military/ commercial base
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Portuguese built a trading empire with military and merchant outpost
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Portuguese built trading Empire in SE Asia
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Portugal takes island of Malacca under Albuquerque
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Magellan had claimed the archipelago (the Philippines) for Spain
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Spain had conquered and colonized the Philippine Islands
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Netherlands was part of Holy Roman Empire, later protestant Northern
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Mughal Empire started and for 200 years it was peaceful. prosperous, and strong. King Affonso l writes a complaint letter to king john lll to Portugal
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Dutch fleet returned to Amsterdam from Asia after more than a years absence
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A group of wealthy Dutch Merchants formed the Dutch East India Company
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Dutch captured Malacca from the Portuguese
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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 the French had become locked in a bitter struggle for global power
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used it's great wealth to dominate most of India
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The dutch maintained an empire in Indonesia
