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Portuguese Indian Ocean Empire
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on October 12, 2013 (go to class or lectures)
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sailors, Macao, predation, bombarded, Aztec, rampage, humiliated, Malacca, Pires, welcome, Islam, artillery, cartaz, Mecca, Portuguese, Ottoman, plants, colony, Aden, arrested, 1502, executed
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Europe set for more sea trips to the Indian Ocean
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the news of da Gama's discovery of the Indian Oceans turned into a               
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da Gama,                      by his experience in Calicut, was determined to return
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        : second trip to Calicut
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went through every ship in the harbor
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cut off the hands, noses and ears of               
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burned ships with sailors aboard
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burned a ship on its way to           
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intent was to show King Zamorin that he was resolved
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Pedro Cabral
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returned to Calicut two years after de Gama,                    port for two days
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targeted entrepôt ports
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1510 seized Goa
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1511 seized               
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1513 could not seize          (Yemen)
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1515 seized Hormuz
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couldn't take them all
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had to fight                fleets which were also in the area
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on the whole, the pattern of aggression and war-making worked, relying on the combination of surprise and power of European military technology, that the                    was on they ships changed the rules of the game
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Portuguese created new hubs in Asia
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occupied territorial Brazil and taking the choke points from Asia to Indonesia to the Red Sea
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were changing the balance of the world
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one of the two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China, the other being Hong Kong
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administered by Portugal from the mid-16th century until late 1999, when it was the last remaining European              in Asia.
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new system called "Estado da Índia"
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based in Goa
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merchants were given a passport called a              in return for protection, in other words, state-sponsored piracy
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reached a limit, there is only so much predation can do in the long run
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same time as Cortés was marching toward            capital, the Portuguese were dreaming of their own empire in Indonesia and China
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drugs and spices were part of the imagination and fantasy world of these explorers and discoverers
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Tomé            (1465-1540)
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Portuguese apothecary
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fascinated with drugs, plants and spices
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was sent to India Ocean to see what he could find out about the              there
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set up in Malacca
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witnessed plundering and ravaging by                     
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fascinated by plant trade: bananas, hibiscus, bamboo, nutmeg, pepper
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was sent to China to do for the Portuguese what Cortés had been doing for the Spanish in Mexico
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1517 arrived in China and face different fate
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Chinese Emperor was not like King Zamorin of Calicut
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expected Chinese to                Europeans as potential allies against           , that old foe that was currently occupying Jerusalem
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didn't understand the transcripts of diplomacy
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was not greeted as he hoped, force to wait
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this was part of the protocol, as well as declaring your subordination as a premise for becoming an imperial guest
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news had arrived in the imperial city of the plundering and predation by Portuguese in the outskirts of the Indian Ocean system
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emperor tore up letters from Pires
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Pires and entourage was                 
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Portugese traders on coasts of China were killed, vessels sunk
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as Cortés was taking down Tenochtitlan, Pires was sentenced of piracy and espionage, members of his entourage were                 , body parts were displayed around Guangzhou where they had set off the volley of cannon fire to impress the emperor and their bodies rolled ceremoniously across the hills of the cities dung hill heaps.
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Pires was never seen again
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what this tells us is the consequences of the patterns of Portuguese penetration, the limits of their                   , and of China's learning to defend themselves against the new European interlopers
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