The Stories of Macau 03. Landing of the Portuguese - 1550s
Europe had started several major expeditions for searching new route to the orient since the 15th century. This is called 'The age of discovery'. Two countries had played a major role in this age: Spain and Portuguese. These two Iberian countries had been competing each other since the start of the age. The Spaniard, travelled to the west of Europe to look for the 'West Indies', turned out to discover two new continents named 'The Americas'. While the Portuguese travelled around Africa and opened up a new route and trading spots in South Africa, East Africa, India, Malacca, Java, China and Japan.
The Portuguese first appeared in South China Sea in the early 16 century. To manage their trading empire, the Portuguese had wanted to established their own 'spot' to take care of their precious goods like spices.
Two methods turned out to be effective: either by force or by the power of money. After experiencing several military failures along the coast of Guangdong and Fujian the Portuguese had chosen the latter option. They claimed that their goods need to be landed in order to be dried by the sun, together with some 'material benefits', they are permitted by the local official to get off their ship and landed on the territory of China for the first time -- this is the recorded first landing of the Portuguese in Macau. Slowly they built walls and houses, settlements were formed, and became the 'resident' of Macau in 1550s.
Remark:
Finally back to get up progress, I have been stuck in work for a few weeks already 
, and have encounter several technical difficulties on this journal as well.
The coastline is particularly bothering me. the grass overlay texture simply visually crashed with the sand props, and the sand props don't do well with Peg's Ppond MMP too. I hope there may be some better solutions in the future.
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Fan o sc4, sarthakknight, Richie99, Prophet42: Thanks for appreciating the work!
jmsepe: Nay don't say that. It sure takes time to make something like this but still plenty of improvement could be done.
tankmank: Have a long road to go 
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