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
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
Dutch
Muslim merchants from the Arabian Peninsula controlled Indian Ocean trade.
a network of long distance trade routes dominated by muslim merchants.
Indians;Arabs;Portuguese;dutch;English;spanish;frenchthat in the lst 1500 years trade started between India indonisia and later Africa with the Arabs doing most of the trade that later introduced their wares to the europeanschina was not really interested at this side of Indian oceanJoseph schembriMalta
Indian Ocean trade has greatly expanded the economies of surrounding nations. This trade has connected nations in southern Asia to countries in Oceania and Africa.
Dutch
Marco Polo and his trading company
Its location between Europe, Asia, and Africa made it a center of trade between the continents.
that it is owned by the portuuese for trade and nobody can harm them
Kochi and calicut( samoothiri)
Portugal wanted to seize and monopolize trade with India in the Indian Ocean.
The first Europeans to sail across the Indian Ocean were Portuguese led by Vasco da Gama. They were looking for an ocean route to the East, so as to cut out the middlemen in their trade with India and China.
Muslim merchants from the Arabian Peninsula controlled Indian Ocean trade.
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A network of long distance trade routes dominated by Muslim merchants.
Siberia
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.