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Period: 1501 to
Most of 1500s
Portugal controlled spice trade between Europe and Asia Provinces want independence -
1510
1510
Portuguese seize land of Goa to make military/ commercial base -
Period: 1510 to 1560
in less than 50 years...
Portuguese built a trading empire with military and merchant outpost -
Period: 1510 to 1560
1510- 1560
Portuguese built trading Empire in SE Asia -
1511
1511
Portugal takes island of Malacca under Albuquerque -
1521
1521
Magellan had claimed the archipelago (the Philippines) for Spain -
Period: 1521 to 1570
Within about 50 years
Spain had conquered and colonized the Philippine Islands -
1525
Early 1500s
Netherlands was part of Holy Roman Empire, later protestant Northern -
1526
1526
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 -
1599
Dutch fleet returned to Amsterdam from Asia after more than a years absence -
1602
A group of wealthy Dutch Merchants formed the Dutch East India Company -
1641
Dutch captured Malacca from the Portuguese -
Period: to
in the late 1700s
the growing power of England and France contributed to the decline of the Dutch trading Empire in the East -
Mid 1700s
British and the French had become locked in a bitter struggle for global power -
late 1700s
used it's great wealth to dominate most of India -
1900
The dutch maintained an empire in Indonesia
