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Gaspar da Cruz

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Gaspar da Cruz (1520 – 5 February 1570; sometimes also known under an Hispanized version of his name, Gaspar de la Cruz) was a Portuguese Dominican friar born in Évora, who traveled to Asia and wrote one of the first detailed European accounts about China. [1]

47 relations: Atlantic slave trade, Azeitão (São Lourenço e São Simão), Évora, Bernardino de Escalante, Bubonic plague, C. R. Boxer, Cambodia, Chaul, China, China–Portugal relations, Christian mission, De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas, Dominican Order, Donald F. Lach, Friar, Fujian, Galeote Pereira, Goa, Guangzhou, Hindustan, History of tea, Hormuz Island, João de Barros, John DeFrancis, Juan González de Mendoza, Kingdom of Portugal, Kochi, Lampacau, Marco Polo, Martín de Rada, Matteo Ricci, Mui tsai, Nicolas Trigault, Plague (disease), Portuguese Ceylon, Portuguese India, Portuguese Malacca, Portuguese people, Samuel Purchas, Setúbal, Shangchuan Island, Slavery in Brazil, Slavery in China, Slavery in Portugal, Sodomy, Tomé Pires, 1556 Shaanxi earthquake.

Atlantic slave trade

The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas.

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Azeitão (São Lourenço e São Simão)

Azeitão (São Lourenço e São Simão) is a civil parish in the municipality of Setúbal, Portugal.

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Évora

Évora (Ebora) is a city and a municipality in Portugal.

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Bernardino de Escalante

Bernardino de Escalante (ca. 1537– after 1605) was a Spanish soldier, priest, geographer and a prolific writer.

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Bubonic plague

Bubonic plague is one of three types of plague caused by bacterium Yersinia pestis.

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C. R. Boxer

Charles Ralph Boxer FBA (8 March 1904 at Sandown, Isle of Wight – 27 April 2000 at St. Albans, Hertfordshire) was a historian of Dutch and Portuguese maritime and colonial history.

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Cambodia

Cambodia (កម្ពុជា, or Kampuchea:, Cambodge), officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia (ព្រះរាជាណាចក្រកម្ពុជា, prĕəh riəciənaacak kampuciə,; Royaume du Cambodge), is a sovereign state located in the southern portion of the Indochina peninsula in Southeast Asia.

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Chaul

Chaul is a former city of Portuguese India, now in ruins.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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China–Portugal relations

Sino-Portuguese relations can be traced back to 1514 during the Ming dynasty of China.

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Christian mission

A Christian mission is an organized effort to spread Christianity.

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De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas

De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Jesu... (Latin for "On the Christian Mission among the Chinese by the Society of Jesus...") is a book based on an Italian manuscript written by the most important founding figure of the Jesuit China mission, Matteo Ricci (1552–1610), expanded and translated into Latin by his colleague Nicolas Trigault (1577–1628).

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Dominican Order

The Order of Preachers (Ordo Praedicatorum, postnominal abbreviation OP), also known as the Dominican Order, is a mendicant Catholic religious order founded by the Spanish priest Dominic of Caleruega in France, approved by Pope Honorius III via the Papal bull Religiosam vitam on 22 December 1216.

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Donald F. Lach

Donald Frederick Lach (pronounced "Lach, as in Bach") (September 24, 1917–October 26, 2000) was an American historian based as a professor in the Department of History at the University of Chicago.

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Friar

A friar is a brother member of one of the mendicant orders founded since the twelfth or thirteenth century; the term distinguishes the mendicants' itinerant apostolic character, exercised broadly under the jurisdiction of a superior general, from the older monastic orders' allegiance to a single monastery formalized by their vow of stability.

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Fujian

Fujian (pronounced), formerly romanised as Foken, Fouken, Fukien, and Hokkien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China.

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Galeote Pereira

Galeote Pereira (sometimes also Galiote Pereira) was a 16th-century Portuguese soldier of fortune.

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Goa

Goa is a state in India within the coastal region known as the Konkan, in Western India.

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Guangzhou

Guangzhou, also known as Canton, is the capital and most populous city of the province of Guangdong.

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Hindustan

Hindustan is the Persian name for India, broadly the Indian subcontinent, which later became an endonym.

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History of tea

The history of tea is long and complex, spreading across multiple cultures over the span of thousands of years.

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Hormuz Island

Hormuz Island (جزیره هرمز Jazireh-ye Hormoz), also spelled Hormoz, is an Iranian island in the Persian Gulf.

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João de Barros

João de Barros (1496 – 20 October 1570), called the Portuguese Livy, is one of the first great Portuguese historians, most famous for his Décadas da Ásia ("Decades of Asia"), a history of the Portuguese in India, Asia, and southeast Africa.

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John DeFrancis

John DeFrancis (August 31, 1911January 2, 2009) was an American linguist, sinologist, author of Chinese language textbooks, lexicographer of Chinese dictionaries, and Professor Emeritus of Chinese Studies at the University of Hawaiokinai at Mānoa.

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Juan González de Mendoza

Juan González de Mendoza, O.S.A. (1545 – 14 February 1618) was the author of one of the earliest Western histories of China.

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Kingdom of Portugal

The Kingdom of Portugal (Regnum Portugalliae, Reino de Portugal) was a monarchy on the Iberian Peninsula and the predecessor of modern Portugal.

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Kochi

Kochi, also known as Cochin, is a major port city on the south-west coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea.

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Lampacau

Lampacau or Lampacao, also known by other names, was a small island in the Pearl River Delta, which in the mid-16th century played an important role in Sino-Portuguese trade.

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Marco Polo

Marco Polo (1254January 8–9, 1324) was an Italian merchant, explorer, and writer, born in the Republic of Venice.

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Martín de Rada

Martín de Rada (Pamplona, Navarre, Spain June 30, 1533 - South China Sea, June 1578; also known as Herrada) was one of the first members of the Order of Saint Augustine (OSA) to evangelize the Philippines, as well as one of the first Christian missionaries to visit Ming China.

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Matteo Ricci

Matteo Ricci, S.J. (Mattheus Riccius Maceratensis; 6 October 1552 – 11 May 1610), was an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China missions.

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Mui tsai

Mui tsai, which means "little sister"Yung, Unbound Feet, 37.

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Nicolas Trigault

Nicolas Trigault (1577–1628) was a Walloon Jesuit, and a missionary in China.

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Plague (disease)

Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

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Portuguese Ceylon

Portuguese Ceylon (Ceilão Português, Sinhala: පෘතුගීසි ලංකාව Puruthugisi Lankawa) was the control of the Kingdom of Kotte by the Portuguese Empire, in present-day Sri Lanka, after the country's Crisis of the Sixteenth Century and into the Kandyan period.

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Portuguese India

The State of India (Estado da Índia), also referred as the Portuguese State of India (Estado Português da Índia, EPI) or simply Portuguese India (Índia Portuguesa), was a state of the Portuguese Overseas Empire, founded six years after the discovery of a sea route between Portugal and the Indian Subcontinent to serve as the governing body of a string of Portuguese fortresses and colonies overseas.

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Portuguese Malacca

Portuguese Malacca was the territory of Malacca that, for 130 years (1511–1641), was a Portuguese colony.

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Portuguese people

Portuguese people are an ethnic group indigenous to Portugal that share a common Portuguese culture and speak Portuguese.

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Samuel Purchas

Samuel Purchas (1577? – 1626), an English cleric, published several volumes of reports by travellers to foreign countries.

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Setúbal

Setúbal (or; Caetobrix) is a city and a municipality in Portugal.

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Shangchuan Island

Shangchuan Island is the main island of Chuanshan Archipelago on the southern coast of Guangdong, China.

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Slavery in Brazil

Slavery in Brazil began long before the first Portuguese settlement was established in 1532, as members of one tribe would enslave captured members of another.

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Slavery in China

Slavery in China has taken various forms throughout history.

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Slavery in Portugal

Slavery in Portugal occurred since before the country's formation.

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Sodomy

Sodomy is generally anal or oral sex between people or sexual activity between a person and a non-human animal (bestiality), but it may also mean any non-procreative sexual activity.

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Tomé Pires

Tomé Pires (1465?–1524 or 1540)Madureira, 150–151.

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1556 Shaanxi earthquake

The 1556 Shaanxi earthquake or Huaxian earthquake or Jiajing earthquake was a catastrophic earthquake and is also the deadliest earthquake on record, killing approximately 830,000 people.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspar_da_Cruz

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