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

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From the 1500s to the mid 1940s was when countries wanted spices. Spices were very important. You could make tons of delicious food with spices. In the Europe all they had was cow. Countries wanted to trade, so they would have to travel through the Suez Canal because it was too dangerous to go through South America. The Suez Canal is between Egypt and Israel. Countries also needed rubber. Everyone needed some kind of raw material. This all led to three motives which was political, economic and cultural. Finally the Portuguese destroyed trade and then set up trading posts. However Southeast Asia felt that impact on Portuguese was the weakest. European colonization of southeast asia was influenced by many thing such as spices, raw materials,

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