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A Green Planet: Sustainable, paperless travel guides for destinations around the world.enA Brief History of Macau
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Though archeological finds indicate that Macau has been continuously inhabited for the last six millennia, until five hundred years ago, its history was little different from that of any other coastal area along the South China Sea. However, the expansion of European seafaring saw Portuguese traders reach the Pearl River Delta in 1513, having founded colonies in India in 1510 and Malaysian Malacca in 1511. In 1542 they also secured a settlement in Japan and, this being an awfully long hop from Lisbon, the Portuguese wanted a staging port along the way. In 1557 they finally managed to negotiate themselves a strategic piece of land at the entrance to the Pearl River Delta, known as Macau (or Aomen in Mandarin). Nearly 300 years before the British acquired Hong Kong, Macau was a flourishing international port, which superseded the Silk Road as Europe’s trading gateway to China. With the Portuguese came Christianity and many of the ruined churches you can see today were built in Macau’s brief heyday in the late 1500s. However, the good times were short-lived and Japan’s expulsion of the Portuguese from Nagasaki in 1637 and the Dutch capture of Malacca in 1641 saw the trade network collapse, leaving Macau to fall into decline.
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<strong>A Brief History of Macau</strong>
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<strong>The Portuguese</strong>
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