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Decline of Portuguese Indies
Decline of Portuguese Indies
The Portuguese and Spanish presence in the East Indies was reduced to Solor, Batac lands, Flores and Timor (see Portuguese Timor) following defeat in 1575 at Ternate at the hands of indigenous Ternateans, Bruneian-Ottoman conquests in Ambon, north Maluku and Banda, and a general failure for sustained control of trade in the region In comparison with the original Portuguese ambition to dominate Asian trade, their influences on modern Indonesian culture are minor : the romantic keroncongguitar ballads; a large number of Malay words which reflect Portuguese’s role as the 'lingua franca' of the archipelago alongside Malay. The most significant impacts of the Portuguese arrival were the disruption and disorganisation of the trade network mostly as a result of their conquest of Portuguese Malacca.
Due to the loss of the Spanish and the Portuguese in the East of Malay Archipelago the Spanish would focus on their remaining colonies which are Solor, Batac lands, Flores and Timor which they would use to plant Spices and trade with China, their enemy will be the Bruneian-Ottoman alliance in the East which is said to be very strong.
The Portuguese and Spanish presence in the East Indies was reduced to Solor, Batac lands, Flores and Timor (see Portuguese Timor) following defeat in 1575 at Ternate at the hands of indigenous Ternateans, Bruneian-Ottoman conquests in Ambon, north Maluku and Banda, and a general failure for sustained control of trade in the region In comparison with the original Portuguese ambition to dominate Asian trade, their influences on modern Indonesian culture are minor : the romantic keroncongguitar ballads; a large number of Malay words which reflect Portuguese’s role as the 'lingua franca' of the archipelago alongside Malay. The most significant impacts of the Portuguese arrival were the disruption and disorganisation of the trade network mostly as a result of their conquest of Portuguese Malacca.
Due to the loss of the Spanish and the Portuguese in the East of Malay Archipelago the Spanish would focus on their remaining colonies which are Solor, Batac lands, Flores and Timor which they would use to plant Spices and trade with China, their enemy will be the Bruneian-Ottoman alliance in the East which is said to be very strong.
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