Question

Explain One similarity between the trade in the Indian Ocean networks before the arrival of the Portuguese and the trade after their arrival c. 1450 - c. 1750. *

Answer 1

Although the Portuguese conquered established a postal exchange empire on the Indian Ocean to tax ships crossing in their territory and strips of land in Mambosa, Hormuz, and the Persian Gulf, they weren’t very strong and were eventually overthrown. One similarity before and after their arrival is that Asians controlled most of the commerce in the Indian Ocean basin.