Ms.Way
AP World History
7 March 2017
Portuguese Trading Empire
The Portuguese Trading Empire during the 15th Century began to spread their cultural influence out into Eastern Europe through their powerful expeditions to other lands. The Portuguese explorers used technology like guns to secure ports and lands such as Goa and Malacca that were vital to the control and dominance in the trade market. The Portuguese had a strong hold on the trade in Eastern Europe as well as the establishment of colonies in other countries such as Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea- Bissau, and Cape Verde. When the Portuguese conquered new lands, the people were strongly influenced by the Portuguese culture. This was because they had dominated and …show more content…
It was the skill of the Portuguese navigators that opened up many sea-routes enabling trade, commerce to flourish between East and West. This resulted in the creation of colonial empires by some of the European powers, in the occupation and often exploitation of others people’s land and resources. These great voyages helped Portugal create 49 sovereign countries. Portuguese missionaries in South American pioneered a new approach that honored and respected native people and protected them from the excesses of colonial rule, creating a series of Reducciones (missions) where slavery was outlawed and local people lived in dignity and freedom. (Marco Ramerini, The Jesuit Missions (Reducciones) in South American, Dutch Portuguese Colonial History, Retrieved October 19, 2008). In India and Japan, Francis Xaiver, instead of rejecting everything in the cultures he encountered saw that they contained much that was of work and …show more content…
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