The Factors That Affect On Portuguese From 1500s To The Mid 1940s

The European conquest of America began as an offshoot of the quest for a sea route to India, China, and the islands of the East Indies, the source of the silk, tea, spices, porcelain, and other luxury goods on which international trade in the early modern era centered. Profit and piety-the desire to eliminate Islamic middlemen and win control of the lucrative trade for Christian Western Europe-combined to inspire the quest for a direct route to Asia. Long before Columbus sailed, Europeans had dreamed of a land of abundance, riches, and ease beyond the western horizon. They hoped America would bring them a

In the time period from 1450-1750, Asia began to use multiple strategies to to build their empires. Many aspects of their culture including their government, religion, and education were refined and changed. During their time period, Europe began to move into Asia in order to gain influence. While the empires of Eastern Asia focused more on their governments and education, the Europeans came and attempt to spread their religious ideas, especially Catholic countries.

So the Europeans have to trade with Asian countries to get spices. The 2 continents are connected by the Ottoman Empire (in the Middle East) lied between them. Of course this empire would tax whatever trade is going through their land. After a while, the Europeans can’t afford to keep the Ottoman Empire happy with the tax, so they decided to explore a sea-route to get to these Asian countries.

The three colonial empires of Portugal, Spain, and England were the most dominate in the fight for land in the Americas. While the motivations for these three colonial empires were similar and all of the Native Americans and/or Africans saw the Spanish Portuguese and English as one brutally similar people, economic differences between the three of them would ensure that their colonies would develop in dramatically unique ways.

The Europeans began their expansion in the globe by taking up African and Asian colonies. During the 1870s, the world experienced imperialism as the Europeans established empires in Africa and Asia. Their aggressive expansion was as a result of industrialization. The move was made for economic, religious, political, humanitarian, and political reasons, amongst others (Hook and Spanier, p.19). Also, Africa was easy to access due to its geographical position. As a result, the Europeans could get into the continent through the ocean or the Gulf Canal. In addition, the Africans continent had vast lands that were beneficial for the Europeans. They started up companies and farming land that would produce their foods. Additionally, the Africans and

In South Asia and Southeast Asia changes occurred due to the Indian Ocean trade network between 500 CE to 1450 CE economically, culturally, and politically. Some similarity the South Asia and the Southeast Asia contained was a strong economy by specialization as trade became more prominent. Once the Indian Ocean trade basin became more notable, culturally, religions Buddhism, and Islam, as well as adapting to some of Indian political tradition became a gradual change. Some difference is how the Southeastern Asia used their advantage with their dependency on maritime trade. As well as establishing Hindu temples as a center of economic and social means in addition to developing a more flexible caste system from India.

It remained under the rule of Visigoth until Islam’s arrival via the Moors in 711 CE. From being the westernmost part of the Roman Empire to western-most part of the Islamic empire. They created one of the longest and lasting maritime empires in history after their Reconquista in 1250 and made a treaty of Ayllon with Castile to continue the Crusade against Muslims and regain the spoils of war from the port. Portugal found a sea route to India onwards Asia. They build trading post and forts. They defeated Goa in India and set a foothold in Asia. They colonized Brazil in 1530 so that they can defend it. Their ulterior motive was to divide Brazil into 15 capitanias so that enough wealth to support a settlement

Death. Rape. Torture. Enslavement. These were some of the horrific tragedies Indigenous peoples endured as Iberians during the 15th to 16th century entered and ravaged their world. As the Spanish empire spread their colonies into the Americas, many Indigenous peoples suffered the wake of the Spanish thirst for power and profit. Iberians depicted the Indigenous peoples as naïve and inferior because Iberians believed they were religiously and socially superior on the account of Christianity and their assessment of a “civilized” culture. Caused by this superiority complex, the Indigenous peoples were subjected to many hardships.

Before 1492, America was isolated from the Europe and Asia, as well as all the advances that came in those places. Asia controlled most trade because they had the most export, and therefore, had the most power. Europe at this time had an interest in spices and drug trade, which led to exploration to overseas places to find more goods.

The relationship between the European powers and Asia had always had a great impact on our world’s history. Whether it was Genghis Khan rising from the steppe to take control of Europe, or the impact of the trade on the Silk Road between china and the far west. Europeans relied on Asian sources for medicines, spices, and all kinds of luxury goods that were unavailable elsewhere. The desire to profit from this trade impelled men to take great risk to find an alternative route around the Ottoman Empire to eastern Asia. Christopher Columbus set out from Spain in 1492 with exactly this mission in mind. His goal was to locate a safe trade passage to the Indies in India and also locating a way to

The main motivation of European exploration was economic motives. People were beginning to become more interested in traveling by sea to reach Asia and Africa and all their riches(Duiker,494). The spice trade was what linked Europe to Asia, and the gold trade linked Europe to Africa. Furthermore, in the 15th and 16th centuries, as the economy and purchasing power of Europe developed and increased, the spice demand grew at a steady rate(Arnold,12). Therefore, spices were one of the few things that made overseas trade possible. Europe did not have very much gold to begin with, so ultimately the gold mines that they did possess were emptied. After 1400, Europe started trading with the areas that produced gold, increasing their amount of gold. Gold was very important to Europe, because not only was it used for decorations, but also their currency. In 1500, Portugal was controlling the flow of gold to Europe, making Portugal much wealthier(Buckler,500). Eventually, slaves were included in the gold

Before Western European influences had power over Southeast Asia, what is known as Indonesia used to be an archipelago which consisted of islands and estates ruled by different kingdoms and empires. Occasionally living in peaceful coexistence yet at times being at state of war with each other due to the lack of the sense of social and political unity that Indonesia has in todays society. Integrated trade networks, began developing starting from the early evidence of Asian history. Being connected to trade networks was an important asset for an empire to acquire wealth and commodities, necessary to become a powerful force. The more global these trade networks in the archipelago became, the more foreign influences managed to enter, this development eventually lead to the colonial state. A significant matter related to the history of Indonesia is that it generally centres on the western part of the archipelago (in particular, the islands of Sumatra and Java). As most of the eastern part of the archipelago has been on the fringes of economic activity throughout history (located further away from main trade routes), it consequently has been on the fringes of politics as well; a situation that continues up to the present day.

The relationship between the locals and the Europeans was very important in Southeast Asia during the time of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. The local rulers that were established had maintained a grip on their territory and had to be consulted before setting up trading posts. Any Europeans that ventured down to this region must have been prepared for what they would be encountering on its shores. Whether it was the Dutch from the Netherlands, the English country traders, the Portuguese or anyone else, they had to learn to co-exist with the locals in order to be successful in what they wanted to do. The Portuguese had done a very good job in maintaining a relationship with the locals wherever they went and were therefore

Portugal has seen an increase in startups and flourishing businesses. This paper will explore the conditions that have made Portugal’s young entrepreneurial spirit possible. We will explore the state of economic development and demand, social and cultural norms in business settings, and the legal environment that young startups have to navigate in order to be successful.

En el proceso de colonización, el colonizado y el colonizador cambian sin tener conciencia de lo sucedido. Las caracterizaciones se crearon cuando los colonizadores empezaron a poner rangos de superioridad. Por consiguiente, el colonizado paso a ser categorizado inferior y el colonizador alterno de ser inferior a superior. Para comprender lo discutido, tenemos que explorar el inicio del colonizador. ¿Porque ellos eran inferiores? Si observamos que tipo de personas los colonizadores eran; podemos claramente observar que eran individuos pobres quienes querían encontrar riquezas, personas sin poder gubernamental y/o carecían de títulos de nobleza. La mayoría, eran inferiores a los europeos que sostenían una posición superior a la de tales individuos.