GASA01H3 : Week 10
Document Summary
The motivations were a mixture of political, religious and economic. All in all, motivation to be the first to do better than the counterparts that lied ahead was the real motivation. The europeans just wanted to get ahead politically and economically of course. Religiously they believed they could once again spread christianity across the south east asia, failing to comprehend that it had already came and left, but they felt like it was their calling to help spread and widen the. Controversy - controversy and expulsion; feedback and renewed western interest in. He was basically the first man to be admitted as a missionary in beijing. The portuguese maritime empire in asia was part of the portuguese maritime empire in asia, is took place in 1415, from the capture of ceuta in africa, by henry the. The portugal kings, who were authorized by the pope to conquer and preach. Christianity, were those who went on these missions.
