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20 Cards in this Set
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Alfonso de Albuquerque
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led Portuguese expansion against Muslim traders in the Indian Ocean
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Mughal empire
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the Muslim empire established
in India
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Goa
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an island off the Indian coast taken by Portugal in 1510 as a military and commercial base
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Malacca
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a state and coastal city in Malaysia;
was an early center to the spice trade
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outpost
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a distant military station or a remote settlement
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Dutch East India Company
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a trading company established by the Netherlands in 1602 to protect and expand trade in Asia
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sovereign
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having full, independent power
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Philippines
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an archipelago in the western Pacific, claimed for Spain by Magellan in 1521
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sepoys
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Indian soldiers who served in an army set up by the French or English trading companies
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How did European nations build empires in South and Southeast Asia?
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Portugal was the first to gain Asia, they had little ships, big firepower cannons, led to Portugal gaining Asia spice trade
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Who made alliances with princes in southern India?
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Portuguese led by Albuquerque
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Who wanted to take India from its Muslim rulers?
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Portugal
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by 1500s, most of India was controlled by _____ rulers of the ______ empire
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muslim, mughal
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_____ trading posts were burned and ships destroyed
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Arab
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in 1511, _____ was taken and its Muslim population killed
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Malacca
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Portuguese military and merchant outposts rimmed the ____ seas.
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southern
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for most of the 1500s, _____ controlled the spice trade
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Portugal
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Portugal resources to make _____ into the region
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major inroads
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______ of Muslims and Hindu, including destruction of _____, brought few converts to Christianity
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harsh treatment, temples
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first Europeans to challenge Portuguese power were the
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Dutch
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