History 1810E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bogeyman, Phase 2, A Famosa
21 Jul 2016
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The first european empire in the east: the empire of plunder seemed assured of continuing success. Portugal wanted to be the only european supplier of spice, so decided to monopolize the. Portugal was a very underdeveloped state at the time. First viceroy (representing the king of portugal) of the estado da india (state of india), Annual fleets of 20 ships or so standard. His purpose was to take over indian trade. Portugal wanted to cut out the middle man (spices got marked up as they went west over the land) by going to india by travelling only by water (go around africa) Mogul empire doesn"t get involved and is much more concerned with internal (land) trade. Portuguese look at attacking and taking over jeda (prominent trading port) and meca to establish their dominance. 1506: portuguese captures socotra, realizes it"s not close enough and that traders can still go around so they give it up.
