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This document summarizes a study on the Portuguese port city of Goa between 1510 and 1700. It discusses how the Portuguese developed Goa as their power center in Asia, transferring meanings of power through architectural structures meant to demonstrate dominance. Wealthy traders and elites funded magnificent buildings that reinforced claims of monopoly over Indian Ocean trade. The formatting of urban space coordinated with creating an ethnically Portuguese social power base. In the 1600s, non-Portuguese gro

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Patricia Faria

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