Concept Project: Follow the Exporers and the Story of the Colonies

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As a high level Portal for the Voages of Discovery, the Golden age and VOC projects.

Medieval travel (1241–1438)

• Marco Polo
• Atlantic Ocean (1419–1507)
  • Portuguese exploration - Prince Henry
  • Spanish Explorarion: Columbus & the "West Indies"
    • Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
    • New World: Americas
    • The "true Indies" and Brazil

Indian Ocean (1497–1513)

• Gama's route to India
• The "Spice Islands" and China

Pacific Ocean (1513–1529) 5.1

• First circumnavigation
• Westward and Eastward exploration met

Inland Spanish conquistadores (1519–1532) 6.1

• Cortés' Mexico and the Aztec Empire
• Pizarro's Peru and the Inca Empire

New trade routes (1542–1565)

VOC in Kerala 1663-1701 De VOC in Perzië 1611-1638 De VOC op Ambon 1605-1788

Northern European involvement (1595–1600s) 8.1

• Exploring North America
• Search for a Northern Route 8.2.1 Barentsz' Arctic exploration

Dutch Australia and New Zealand

Russian exploration of Siberia (1581–1660)

• Conquest of the Khanate of Sibir
• Siberian river routes
• Russians reach the Pacific

AFRICA:

ANGOLA:

• Luanda: (Portuguese).

GHANA:

• Accra: (Danish);
• Axim: (Portuguese/Dutch);
• Princestown: (Brandenburg/Dutch).

KENYA:

• Mombasa:

MOCAMBIQUE:

• Maputo: (Portuguese);

MOROCCO:

• Azemmour: (Portuguese);
• El-Jadida ((Portuguese);
• Essaouira: (Portuguese);
• Safi: (Portuguese);
• Tanger: (Portuguese).

SÃO TOMÉ AND PRINCIPE:

• São Tomé: (Portuguese).

SENEGAL:

• Island of Goree: (Dutch/French).

SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Town (Dutch).

TANZANIA:

• Kilwa Kisiwani: (Portuguese).

AMERICA:

BRAZIL:

PARAIBA: (Dutch/Portuguese).

PERNAMBUCO:

• Recife: (Dutch/Portuguese);

ASIA:

PERSIAN GULF:

BAHRAIN:

• Bahrain: (Portuguese);

IRAN:

• Hormuz: (Portuguese);
• Larak: (Portuguese);
• Qeshm: (Portuguese).

OMAN:

• Muscat: (Portuguese);

SAUDI ARABIA:

• Tarut:(Portuguese).

INDIA:

INDIA:

DAMAO: (Portuguese).

DIU:(Portuguese)

GOA: (Portuguese).

KANARA COAST

• Anjadip or Anjediva island: (Portuguese).

KERALA:

• Cannanore: (Portuguese);
• Pallipuram (Portuguese).

MAHARASHTRA: (Portuguese);

TAMIL NADU:

• Sadras: (Dutch);
• Tranquebar: (Danish).

SRI LANKA:

SRI LANKA:

• Batticaloa:(Portuguese/Dutch);
• Galle: (Portuguese/Dutch);
• Jaffna: (Dutch);
• Kalpitiya:(Dutch);
• Mannar: (Portuguese/Dutch);
• Matara: (Dutch);
• Matara: (Dutch);
• Negombo: (Portuguese/Dutch);
• Trincomalee: (Portuguese/Dutch);

EAST ASIA:

INDONESIA:

• Makassar: (Dutch).

EAST TIMOR:

• Balibo: (Portuguese);
• Batugade: (Portuguese);
• Maubara: (Dutch/Portuguese).

PHILIPPINES:

• Cebu: (Spanish);
• Manila: (Spanish);
• Zamboanga: (Spanish)

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