This episode explores the failed conquest of Aden (1513) and the colonisation of Hormuz (1515). What was the significance of the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf in early Portuguese expansion? For further reading, check out the sources used in this episode at https://hocpodcast.wordpress.com.

We’re finally in Southeast Asia - this episode traces the history of Malacca as a port under the Malacca Sultanate to the 1511 Portuguese conquest, marking the beginning of European colonisation in Southeast Asia. For further reading, check out the sources used in this episode at https://hocpodcast.wordpress.com.

We turn to Goa in this episode, and the roles that the Battle of Diu, Afonso de Albuquerque, and Portuguese exiles played in its colonisation. For further reading, check out the sources used in this episode at https://hocpodcast.wordpress.com.

In 1500, Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil on his way to India and claims it for Portugal. Two years later, Vasco da Gama sails to Calicut again. Their attempts to claim a slice of the lucrative trade profits in the region comes at a cost. For further reading, check out the sources used in this episode at https://hocpodcast.wordpress.com.

We look at the first Portuguese voyage to Asia, where Vasco da Gama and his crew sailed along the Cape Route for the first time and arrive in Calicut (located in modern day India) in 1498. For further reading, check out the sources used in this episode at https://hocpodcast.wordpress.com.

With recent news of the dismantling of statues of Christopher Columbus and various colonial figures, this episode comes at a timely moment. This is the story of a sailor encountering a portion of a population on another continent in 1492, and this very meeting would mark the beginnings of the devastation of one continent’s inhabitants and of Europeans gaining power and dominion over much of the world. For further reading, check out the sources used in this episode at https://hocpodcast.wordpress.com.

While Portugal was busy colonising islands off the Western African coast, Spain was emerging into its own, conquering the Canary Islands over a span of about 90 years. The second part of the episode highlights the Treaty of Alcáçovas (1479) and the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) which split the early colonial world into two. For further reading, check out the sources used in this episode at https://hocpodcast.wordpress.com.

In the first episode, we look at the beginnings of Portuguese colonisation in Ceuta in 1415, at the start of the so-called "Age of Discovery". The next part of the episode then touches on a brief timeline of islands colonised by the Portuguese along the West African coast just before the end of the 15th century. For further reading, check out the sources used in this episode at https://hocpodcast.wordpress.com.