Portuguese trader Lourenço Marques establishes an eponymous …
Years: 1540 - 1551
Portuguese trader Lourenço Marques establishes an eponymous settlement, today’s Maputo, on the extreme southern coast of what is today Mozambique, peopling it with his native wife and mixed-race children.
As in the Americas, a hybrid African-European people begins to develop here.
People
Groups
- Hinduism
- Muslims, Sunni
- Muslims, Shi'a
- Papal States (Republic of St. Peter)
- Orissa, Kingdom of
- Portugal, Avizan (Joannine) Kingdom of
- Ottoman Empire
- Adil Shahi dynasty (Bijapur, Sultanate of)
- Deccan Sultanates
- Ahmadnagar Sultanate
- Portuguese Mozambique
- Vijayanagara, (Tuluva) Kingdom of
- Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golconda
- India, Portuguese State of
- Jesuits, or Order of the Society of Jesus
Topics
- Interaction with Subsaharan Africa, Early European
- Colonization of Asia, Portuguese
- Vijayanagar Wars of 1509-65
- Turkish-Portuguese War, Second
- Counter-Reformation (also Catholic Reformation or Catholic Revival)
Commodoties
Subjects
- Origins
- Commerce
- Watercraft
- Labor and Service
- Conflict
- Faith
- Government
- Technology
- Finance
- Movements
