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

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List the Explorers / Ages / Oceans List the locations

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

1241-1438 : Medieval travel

• Marco POLO
• 1419-1507 : Atlantic Ocean
  • Portuguese exploration - Prince Henry
  • Spanish Explorarion: Columbus & the 'WEST Indies'
    • 1494 : Treaty of Tordesillas
    • New World: Americas
    • The "true Indies" and Brazil
• 1497-1513 : Indian Ocean
  • GAMA's route to India
  • The "Spice Islands" and China
• 1513-1529 : Pacific Ocean
  • First circum-navigation
  • WEST-ward and EAST-ward exploration met
• 1519-1532 : Inland Spanish conquistadores
  • Cortés' Mexico and the Aztec Empire
  • Pizarro's Peru and the Inca Empire
• 1542-1565 : New trade routes
  • 1663-1701 : VOC in Kerala
  • 1611-1638 : VOC in Perzië
  • 1605-1788 : VOC op Ambon
• 1595–1600s : Northern European involvement
  • Exploring North America
  • Search for a Northern Route
    • Barentsz' Arctic exploration
  • Dutch Australia and New Zealand
• 1581-1660 : Russian exploration of Siberia
  • Conquest of the Khanate of Sibir
  • Siberian river routes
  • Russians reach the Pacific

AFRICA - the continent

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).

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AMERICA - continent

• BRAZIL
• PARAIBA - Dutch / Portuguese
• PERNAMBUCO

Recife - Dutch / Portuguese

ASIA - continent

PERSIAN GULF:

BAHRAIN

• Bahrain: (Portuguese);

IRAN:

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

OMAN:

• Muscat: (Portuguese);

SAUDI ARABIA:

• Tarut:(Portuguese).

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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 - the island

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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