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Each of the seven volumes and two double volumes in this series consists of an anthology of annotated extracts translated into English, many of them for.

4. 0 (ISBN 0-7546-0181-1). The Periplus Maris Erythraeiis a handbook written by an anonymous author in the second half of the first century . for the use of merchants from Roman Egypt who traded with east Africa, Arabia, and India. He notes that there were two main commercial centres: one was Barygaza on the northwestern coast.

The Portuguese appear to have been the first European visitors to encounter East Africa, with the arrival of a lone traveller, Pero da Covilham, in . 491.

The Age of Discovery and later European exploration allowed the mapping of the world, resulting in a new . The Portuguese began systematically exploring the Atlantic coast of Africa from 1418, under the sponsorship of Prince Henry.

The Age of Discovery and later European exploration allowed the mapping of the world, resulting in a new worldview and distant civilizations coming into contact, but also led to the propagation of diseases that decimated populations not previously in contact with Eurasia and Africa and to the enslavement, exploitation, military conquest and economic dominance by Europe and its colonies over native populations.

In the last years of the 15th century, Portuguese navigators established the sea . By the middle of the century, the age of the conquistadores was replaced by a. .

In the last years of the 15th century, Portuguese navigators established the sea route to India and within a decade had secured control of the trade routes in the Indian Ocean and its approaches. Mercantile interests, crusading and missionary zeal, and scientific curiosity were intermingled as the motives for this epic achievement. Similar hopes inspired Spanish exploitation of the discovery by Christopher Columbus of the Caribbean. By the middle of the century, the age of the conquistadores was replaced by an era of colonization, based both on the procurement of precious metal by Indian labour and on pastoral and plantation economies using imported African slaves.

Malyn Newitt September 18, 2002. The Portuguese appear to have been the first European visitors to encounter East Africa, with the arrival of a lone traveller, Pero da Covilham, in .

The Journal of African History. Portuguese Encounters with the World in the Age of the Discoveries ). Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2002. 4.

Newitt anchors the documents in a seventeen-page introduction that provides an overview of themes to be covered in the course of.The First Portuguese Colonial Empire By Malyn Newitt University of Exeter Press, 1986.

Newitt anchors the documents in a seventeen-page introduction that provides an overview of themes to be covered in the course of the book. The Political Economy of Small Tropical Islands: The Importance of Being Small By Helen M. Hintjens; Malyn D. D. Newitt University of Exeter Press, 1992.

Newitt's Portuguese in West Africa is clearly the best of the recent collections of documents in English about the Portuguese presence in the early modern world. Instructors seeking to include materials about Europe's encounter with Africa before the eighteenth century will find coherent sets of readings here, as well as just enough context to frame effective discussions. And specialists in the history of Anglophone or Francophone Africa should also benefit from the readings on the Portuguese presence in Northwest and West Africa, along with useful bibliographic references