Chapter 15 (433-459)

        This chapter tells of how the Europeans traveled down the coast of west africa ending up in Southern India. In making this effort the goal of the Europeans was to attain valuable spices. For instance, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, cloves, and pepper. These were used as preservatives in a lot of foods. The interest in Asia started after the Black Death in Europe. When Portuguese learned that many of the other ships on the ocean were not heavily armed they took advantage of this aspect. They went out on the sea with armed cannons. They officially had the power of the sea. I feel like this was a very smart plan by the portuguese. For a country to see this and seize the opportunity is impressive for being in the 15th century and not having knowledge of past wars to learn tactics. Spain was the first country to finally challenge the Portuguese. Philippines soon were forced to move out of their lands for Spanish settlers. This led to Filipino imagrants began to merge in with the Spanish in Manila. Chinese and Japanese moved to Manila aswell. But the Chinese were resistant to converge to Spanish ways and began many massacres. Ultimitaly Spanish killed about 20,000 people. This was definitely a tragedy seeing as how it was almost the entire Chinese population of the island.