Map Group 1 by Audrey Ke Zhao

Lisbon, Portugal

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The Portuguese traded in goods such as spices and other luxury goods like gold, silver, and silk. The goal of the Portuguese was to establish trade monoploies along the trade routes.

Sudan

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reached in 1460s

Colombo, Sri Lanka

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Malacca, Malaysia

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In April 1511, Albuquerque sailed to Malacca on the Malay Peninsula, the largest spice market of the period

Timor, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

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The Portuguese empire pushed further south and proceeded to discover Timor in 1512

Macau

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In 1557 the Chinese authorities allowed the Portuguese to settle in Macau, creating a warehouse in the trade of goods between China, Japan, Goa and Europe

City Of Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines

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Manila was also incorporated into the Macau-Nagasaki trading network, allowing Macanese of Portuguese descent to act as trading agents for Philippine Spaniards and use Spanish silver from the Americas in trade with China, and they later drew competition with the Dutch East India Company.

Nagasaki, Japan

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By 1570 the Portuguese bought part of a Japanese port where they founded a small part of the city of Nagasaki,and it became the major trading port in Japan in the triangular trade with China and Europe.

Calicut, Kerala, India

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left Portugal in 1497, rounded the Cape and continued along the coast of East Africa, where a local pilot was brought on board who guided them across the Indian Ocean, reaching Calicut, the capital of the kingdom ruled by Zamorins, also known as Kozhikode) in south-western India in May 1498

Goa, India

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The Dutch eventually came to acknowledge the importance of Goa in breaking up the Portuguese empire in Asia. In 1583, merchant and explorer Jan Huyghen van Linschoten (1563 – 8 February 1611)

Cape Town, South Africa

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Sugar Cane + Slave Trade

Pernambuco, Brazil

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Goa, India

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From different stops through Africa (main one being Cape of Goof Hope in 1488) to Goa in 1510)