Decay or defeat ? : an inquiry into the Portuguese decline in Asia 1580-1645 Veen, Ernst van

Between 1591 and 1609 the direct traffic from Macao to the Philippines was somewhat tempered because the Portuguese began to use the Japanese shipping route between Nagasaki

17 Oliveira Marques 18 gives us 50,000 people in Hormuz at the beginning of the seventeenth century, with less than 1,000 Portugue- se; Diu would have reduced from 10,000 to

It was in the first instance the South Netherlanders with Portuguese business contacts, who, as from the early 1590s, contracted Dutch ships, not only to involve themselves in

For the States-General the advantages of the VOC were in the first instance very close to home: the Company would 'in the course of time be able to provide a force of big ships,

In 1617 they appointed Coen as the successor of Laurens Reael 50 and his instructions contained further precise stipulations about a rendezvous location. At the same time they

The Dutch insisted that if Malacca should be taken they should occupy it, but the sultan refused to participate if he would not be allowed access to the town and asked for

As far as overseas' business was concerned, the Castilian monarchy was probably more interested in the undisturbed supply of the private silver, which amounted to about two to

From the annual revenue data of the Casa da India produced by Rooney one can calculate that with an average amount of pepper arriving in Lisbon of 15,000 quintals, its total