I think that they used it for healing and preventative medicine.
Southeast Asia
Magelan
The Portuguese explorer, Ferdinand Magellan and the Spanish fleet, proved the world was round. They were the first to circumnavigate around the world and complete the first voyage around the world.
Slavery was introduced to the "New World" but Dutch traders in the Carribean island of Hispanoila. Slavery was brought to the new world almost as soon as it was discovered. While several European countries actually outlawed slavery, they did support the slave trade as a means of raising tax revenue. England banned slavery prior to the revolution, but not in colonies. The Portuguese, Spanish, French and Dutch all transported slaves purchased from tribal Africans, but the Dutch were given the worst name. The Portuguese and Spanish transported the most. The French the least.
Ferdinand Magellan
Southeast Asia
Known throughout the world as the "Spice Islands", the Indonesian islands of Maluku contributed to the introduction of its native spices to world cuisine. Spices such as nutmeg or mace, clove, pandan leaves, keluwak and galangal are native to Indonesia.
The Portuguese focused on establishing trade routes to Asia, while the Spanish focused on colonizing the Americas. The Portuguese reached India by sailing around Africa, while the Spanish reached the Americas by sailing west across the Atlantic.
At various times, the Spanish, the British, the Dutch, the French, and the Portuguese all had empires in the New World.
À volta do mundo
Magelan
the captain joshquas from portugese.
The Portuguese explorer, Ferdinand Magellan and the Spanish fleet, proved the world was round. They were the first to circumnavigate around the world and complete the first voyage around the world.
Spanish and Portuguese Christians united in the 1400s to spread protestant Christianity around the world.
Spices imported in bulk from Asia became the world's largest commercial enterprise of the 17th century. The Dutch East India Company held a Dutch monopoly on Asian trade that they kept for two centuries. Currently, Netherland's greatest imports are machinery and transport equipment.
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