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Uma história política do reino do Monomotapa a partir das fontes portuguesas (século XVI)

Bibliographic Data

ID5839522
AuthorsIvana Pansera De Oliveira Muscalu (corresponding author)
Year2012
Publication date2012-02-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeTHESIS
PublisherUniversidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11606/d.8.2012.tde-28062012-095255
OpenAlexW2543606263
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited11

After the inaugural trip of Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese have drawn an ambitious project for the control of routes and trading posts of the Indian Ocean, which included the installation of trading stations in the African coastal cities of Kilwa and Sofala.The importance of the latter lays in its proximity to the gold producers in the outback, especially in the Kingdom of the Monomotapa -identified by contemporaries as the richest and most powerful in the region.At the beginning of its presence on the coast, the Portuguese traders waited for African merchants inside the fortress.As the volume of business decreased, the private traders and agents of the Crown began to explore the wilderness due to the seeking of wealth sources that did not reach the feitoria of Sofala.By that time, Muslims had shifted commercial networks for the city of Angoche.In two different phases, the Portuguese movement towards the hinterland of the continent took place throughout the sixteenth century.This research relies on the vast amount of documents left behind by the Portuguese when they passed that encounter .It is based on the assumption that the use of a methodology of critical reading of the sources allows us to approach Shona's political, social and economic structures.Therefore, the purpose of this research is to investigate the political history of the kingdom of Monomotapa throughout the sixteenth century, starting with the research of the interests which led the Mutapas to establish friendly relations with the Lusitanians who invaded their territory.Even though the Portuguese presence in Africa is not our main focus, we understand that the history of Monomotapa in the sixteenth century can only be understood through the analysis of the contact of this people with the Portuguese.This is to say that the projects and interests of the Shona and the Portuguese led to the rise of new contexts and significant arrangements for the historical dynamics in this region

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