Spice Trade

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  • Period: 1500 to

    Portugal controlled the spice trade between Europe and Asia

  • Period: 1500 to 1550

    Netherlands was part of the HRE, later northern protestant states wanted independence

  • 1510

    Portuguese seized the island of Goa

  • Period: 1510 to 1560

    Portuguese built a trading empire in South East Asia.

  • 1511

    The Portuguese took the East Indies port of Malacca

  • Period: 1511 to 1561

    In less than 50 years

    Portuguese had built a trading empire with military and merchant outposts.
  • Magellan had claimed the archipelago of the Philippines
    1521

    Magellan had claimed the archipelago of the Philippines

  • Period: 1521 to 1571

    Within 50 years

    Spain had conquered and colonized the Philippines
  • Mughal Empire started and for 200 years it was peaceful, King Affonso I wrote a letter to King John III of Portugal.
    1526

    Mughal Empire started and for 200 years it was peaceful, King Affonso I wrote a letter to King John III of Portugal.

  • A Dutch fleet returns to Amsterdam from Asia after more than a years absence, it returned with spices.

  • A group of wealthy Dutch merchants formed the Dutch East India Company

    A group of wealthy Dutch merchants formed the Dutch East India Company

  • The Dutch captured Malacca from the Portuguese and opened trade with China

  • In the 1700's

    The growing power of England and France contributed to the decline of the Dutch trading empire in the East.

  • Mid 1700's

    The British and the French had become locked in a bitter struggle for power.

  • Late 1700's

    Britain has used its great wealth to dominate much of India

  • The Dutch maintained an empire in Indonesia.