Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Spanish and Portuguese conquest and
trade
- European Colonisation/exploration
- Spanish
- Spanish territories
- Panama (Cueva)
- Cuba (Taino, or Arawak, Indians)
- Mexico (Aztec Empire)
- Peru (Inca Empire)
- Portuguese
- Prince Henry the Navigator
(1394-1460)
- "Commerce and Conversion"
- Revived interest in the Gold trade
- Expansion into Africa- capture of Ceuta
- Rapid Commercial Expansion (West coast of Africa)
- Portuguese sailors reach Guinea
- Set up sugar plantations in Sao Tome
- Slave trade continues:
exceeds importance of the
even the gold trade in 1530
- Spice Trade Booms
- Largest European share in spice trade from 1520
- "Spice Race" with Spain over the spice trade and economic benefits
- Portuguese Territories
- Brazil
- West coast of Africa
- Much of East Coast Africa
- Parts of Arabian Peninsula
- Goa and much of India's West Coast
- Malacca