Europeans Explore the East

Would you ever try space tourism, if you had the money for it? Explain why.

With Italy and Muslims controlling the trade routes, what are other European nations going to attempt?

“If we deprive them (Muslims) of this their ancient market there, there does not remain for them a single port in the whole of these parts, where they can carry on their trade in these things… I hold it as very certain that if we take this trade of Malacca away out of their hands, Cairo and Mecca are entirely ruined, and to Venice will no spiceries… (be)... conveyed except that which her merchants go and buy in Portugal.” -Afonso de Albuquerque

Question: What did de Albuquerque see as the outcome of a Portuguese victory at Malacca?