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being the first ones to get there and setting up bases.

They didnot come to a vacuum.They encountered superior economies and systems.But their advantage lay in superior war ships,artillery,centralised organisation and nation state ideology,organised religious insruments and ideology.Their domination was similar to that of the Turkish conquest of north India

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being the first ones to get there and setting up bases.

They didnot come to a vacuum.They encountered superior economies and systems.But their advantage lay in superior war ships,artillery,centralised organisation and nation state ideology,organised religious insruments and ideology.Their domination was similar to that of the Turkish conquest of north India

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To which country in the 1600s did the portuguese lose control of trade in the Indian ocean?

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Who controlled the spice trade in the Indian Ocean before the Portuguese gained controlled?

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Portugal wanted to seize and monopolize trade with India in the Indian Ocean.


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A network of long distance trade routes dominated by Muslim merchants.


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They discovered the Southern Route to the Indian Ocean, via Cape Hope, established trading enclaves at Indian Ocean Ports like Macau, and enforced their trade monopoly with Cannon, Ships, and Fortifications. They were tough, able, Mariners and Traders and they broke the Spice Monopoly belonging to the Arab Traders before them.


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