The Portuguese expansion into the Indian Ocean occurred at the time when medieval warfare, centered around the individual and hand-to-hand combat, was slowly passing and being replaced by a more ...

In the Indian Ocean in particular, the Portuguese governors, the ones who established the empire, they were people of their time, and they were relatively ruthless.

For Manuel, the Indian Ocean was crusading territory, where he intended to convert the heathens, found an eastern empire in the name of Christ, join forces with the legendary Christian king of ...

In the sixteenth century, the Indian Ocean was a Portuguese lake. But from the mid-seventeenth century, rival European powers threatened Portuguese market shares and the Portuguese eastern empire ...

A giraffe from Malindi on the coast of East Africa being led into the imperial palace in Beijing in 1414; magnificent Chinese armadas plowing the Indian Ocean until the emperor decided to ban any ...

conquerors: how portugal seized the indian ocean and forged the first global empire, roger crowley, faber, $39.99 Save Log in , register or subscribe to save articles for later.

A wreck off the coast of Kenya may have been a ship from one of Vasco da Gama's pioneering voyages into the Indian Ocean 500 years ago, archaeologists say. The remains of the vessel, which were ...

European Colonisation along the Indian Ocean. When the Portuguese rounded the Cape in the late 15th century, they entered what many have termed a Muslim Lake, dominated in the north by the Turkish ...

Object Details Author Casale, Giancarlo Notes Originally published: 2010. Contents Introduction : an empire of the mind -- Selim the navigator : 1512-1520 -- Ibrahim Pasha and the Age of ...

Underwater archaeologists think the wreck is the São Jorge, a Portuguese ship that sank in 1524 during Vasco de Gama's final voyage into the Indian Ocean.