Cross-Cultural trade with Portuguese

Curtin talk about the way portuguese trade has risen till his collapse. The revolution in shipping and above all the world winds system throw portugueses in there commerce. They success to travel around all the coast for there trade. They first came a new way of trading which involve more protection. It was a trade very well organized in which the polical authority has brought his help with coercive power where militaries protection his mobilized for the safety of the trade. In fact all this transformations appear because of the desires of monopoly from some religious or ethnics group. As the portuguese empire extend, only the noble make profit from this trade.It was not easy thing for portuguese to extend there commercial empire. There goal was to take control the trade network. For that, they have looked for an strategic point in other to give command along the sea lanes like zimbabwe entrepôt for gold trade and Maluku island for pepper trading. Then to protect there commerce they sold protection to merchant non-portuguese in a form of entrance permit. As a matter of fact the system was unstable. it met corruption applied officials and economic problem in the government where all the taxes paid served the military protection. And some voyages were also dangerous. But the portuguese were not only to seek the sovereignty there was also Asian trade. They response by integrating portuguese population, to belong to their capital or revenue collection, and have their own right to trade. After the asian muslim also take part to this dispute. They were rejected by portuguese who wanted to replace them by others. But the fact is the control an important point of trade for the portuguese. Dutch and english also showed their force against portuguese policies by creating some compagnies of trade. Dutch manage to control some main post an created a genuine monopolyby controlling clove and nutmeg production itself. But there their monopoly was not a financial success. As for the english east india company they focus on spice trade which make them more profit. All these three power ( portuguese, english, dutch) were in competition where everyone can compete effectively. But the plunder system was very expensive for acquiring wealth. Definitely curtin wanted to show us european trade evolution and the implication of all empire who wanted to extend their territory.