World history/WHME101/The Atlantic world in the 1600s/Spain and Portugal

Reading

Read this article from the Saylor Foundation, below. As you read, consider the following questions:

• What economic and cultural bonds developed between the Portuguese empire and Asia, Africa and the Americas?

• What led to the shift from Asian to Atlantic trade during the late sixteenth century?

Saylor Foundation, The Portugese Empire, 2013.