Albuquerque takes Malacca

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1. Story
2. A Portuguese force under Afonso de Albuquerque stormed and held Malacca, the entrepôt commanding the strait between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea and the point through which Moluccan cloves, nutmeg and mace passed on their way west. The capture gave Portugal a position on the spice trade at its narrowest choke point and opened the way east to the Moluccas themselves; it also dispersed the merchant communities the port had concentrated, and much of the trade rerouted to rival harbours rather than submitting.
3. Knowledge
4. Malacca (Melaka)
5. The Cape route (Carreira da Índia)
6. The Moluccas (Maluku Islands)
7. Albuquerque takes Malacca
8. Connections
9. Malacca (Melaka)
10. The Moluccas (Maluku Islands)
11. The Cape route (Carreira da Índia)
12. Islam
13. The Moluccas (Maluku Islands)
14. Elite and state adoption as a diffusion mechanism
15. The ruling house of Malacca adopts Islam
16. Albuquerque takes Malacca
17. SEA-ME-WE 5
18. Malacca (Melaka)
19. Albuquerque takes Malacca
20. The Magellan expedition sails from Sanlúcar
21. The Victoria completes the first circumnavigation
22. The Treaty of Zaragoza settles the Moluccas by sale
23. Volta do mar (the return by sea)
24. Cape of Good Hope
25. Goa
26. Pepper
27. Carrack (nau)
28. Lisbon
29. Casa da Índia, Lisbon
30. Dias rounds the southern tip of Africa
31. Vasco da Gama reaches Calicut
32. Cabral sights the coast of Brazil
33. Albuquerque takes Malacca
34. Evidence
35. The standard single-volume account of Portuguese expansion: Ceuta, the African coast, the Cape route, the carreira da Índia, the Estado da Índia and the institutions that ran them. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted in this session. Boxer is a mid-twentieth-century imperial history and its framing has been substantially revised by later work, particularly on Asian agency and on the limits of Portuguese control; this pack uses it for structure, not for interpretation.