Portugal and Spain
A. Portugal
In the year 1498, Vasco da Gama reached
India via the Cape of Good Hope, marking the Europeans, first contact by sea
with the Far East. The Portuguese arrived in Malacca in 1509 and captured that
city in 1511. As Malacca had been a part of the Thai Kingdom since the reign of
King Ramkhamhaeng, Portugal decided to dispatch Duarte .adding
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