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- W2273621788 abstract "i T was primarily in quest of slaves to meet the demands of the barter trade on the Gold Coast that the Portuguese in 1485 first penetrated the coastal swamp belt and made contact with the kingdom of Benin. They rightly judged it to be the most powerful they had yet encountered in Guinea: the counterpart in that region of the Congo kingdom first visited by them only a few years earlier. A highly developed political system enabled the Oba to rule over an extensive forest state; Benin City itself bore witness to an advanced level of social and economic organisation. While the main objective of the Portuguese was the development of trade, contact with states such as Benin inevitably involved relationships of another kind because the African trade was a monopoly carefully guarded and directed by the Portuguese Crown. On the Benin side too the Oba exercised firm control over commerce with Europeans and probably enjoyed a monopoly of the most important exports of his state. From the beginning, therefore, trade implied a political relationship between the two governments. Joao Afonso de Aveiro, who led the first Portuguese party to Benin, was a gentleman of the royal household and had instructions that called for commercial and political intelligence as well as a report on the religion of Benin, for these were all matters of interest to the Portuguese government. Religion concerned them because the King of Portugal had been granted exclusive ecclesiastical patronage in Guinea, and also because, still possessed by the crusading spirit, the Portuguese were looking for allies against Islam. In this latter endeavour they sought firstly to find a sea route to the land of the Christian Emperor of Ethiopia,1 and secondly to convert to Christianity the non-Islamic peoples they might meet in the course of exploration. Such objectives were in turn integrated with the political and commercial interests of the Portuguese government by the consideration that a people converted to Christianity would in all ways be more open to their influence than would one with whom their contacts were confined solely to trade." @default.
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