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1 Advent of Europeans

What’s Inside

• Introduction

• Portuguese

• Dutch

• Danes

• French

INTRODUCTION

For Europe, since the rise of the Ottoman Empire and the fall of Constantinople, in 1453, there was a need for an alternative route to Asia. With Turkish control over the old land route and demand for oriental commodities constantly rising in the West, European nation-states were scrambling to find a maritime route to Asia. Whilst, Bartholomew Dias has been successful in reaching the Cape of Storms later named as Cape of Good Hope by 1487; a maritime route between the tip of Africa and Indian subcontinent evaded the Europeans. By 1492, in ...