Fall of Malacca Empire

return of malacca cane EmpireFALL OF MALACCA EMPIREThe golden age of malacca cane ended in 1511. Empire malacca cane who called to an end after the Portuguese attack malacca cane under the rule of sultan Mansur Shah.Internal Factors fragile LEADERSHIP OPPRESSIVE ADMINISTRATIONWeak ruling government is the resolve cause to the fall of the malacca cane Sultanate. They were overdependence on Tun Perak until they cant think a capable leader to replace him. After the death of the Bendahara Tun Perak, Malacca lacked an efficient leader as the replacement of Tun Perak which is Tun Mutahir as a Bendahara was a lightsome leader because he more concern on his personalised welfare and biased during his constitution. Many of the ministers expressed their dissatisfaction with this aspect of the way of his caution style. As a result, there were often struggles for power. Besides, Sultan Mahmud who paid but a little attention to the administration consider as a weak leader too. He enables the officers to act as they pleased. Bribing and defamation were frequent and inevitably result in economic instability and discontent among the people. putrescence in administration to gain personal wealth had caused the imposed of full(prenominal) taxes on citizens and traders forced merchants to shift their attention to Acheh, the other trading expressions. At the same time, Bendahara Tun Mutahir being accused that he attempted to overthrow the king. He evoked the anger of Sultan Mahmud so without further investigation Sultan Mahmud executed Bendahara Tun Mutahir and his family. Raja Ahmad the inheritor was also weak and inefficient. When Sultan Mahmud realise he was wrong, he handed reign to his son which was unable to garter him to rule his empire. Whereas Bendahara Tun Perpatih, the successor which is also weak, ill and old.Son of Sultan MahmudDISUNITYMalaccas weak position caused the disunited of people and spilt into factions. Bendahara Tun Mutahir is and Indian-Muslim s. His weak administration and practiced favoritism had caused the Malays to become contrary towards them and develop into racial tension. Bendahara Tun Mutahir been official had caused the jealousy among Malays and the evident was when Sultan Mahmud commanded Bendahara Tun Mutahir and Tun Ali to be sentence to death at the betrayal by Raja Mandaliar and Laksamana Khoja Hassan, an Indian native. Bendahara Tun Peraks son, Tepok been appointed as Bendahara but he was too old. All of these factors had causes the disunity among the residents of Malacca.THE WEAKNESS OF MALACCA military machine AND DEFENCEContinued misunderstanding caused segregation and disunity among the people. The situation became worse and fine when the Portuguese, led by Alfonso dAlbuquerque attacked Malacca. For Malacca soldiers, they are losing of skills because they not baffling in war for a long time. They had been using traditional weapons much(prenominal) as creese, arrow and spear during the war with Po rtuguese. Whereas, Portuguese used innovational weapons such as cannon that clearly different from Malacca in term of range and mobility. Portuguese armed forces have well-equipped weapons and good strategic planning with the guidance of Alfonso dAlbuquerque. Before Portuguese attack Malacca, they had conquered Goa India so they have support of army from Goa India. But for Malacca, the mercenary soldiers from Jawa abandoned assure during the war.DISLOYALTY OF FEREIGNERS AND MERCHANTSDue to the political instability, merchants who came and stay at Malacca did not intrust to the government of Malacca. They even backed and supported Portuguese during their attack. For Chinese merchant, they provided large barges on loan to Portuguese. Tamil merchant provided information regarding Malacca plea system.External FactorsTHE DISCOVERY OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE (TAAJUNG HARAPAN)It is a naval passage in Southern Africa that discovered by Bartholomew Diaz in 1488. The palmy of crossing of the Cape of Good Hope allowed the sailor to sail from the western hemisphere which is Portugal to the vitamin E. While Prince Henry eager to locate their trading in the East that lead to the encouragement of his people to sail to East with the slogan of Gospel, Gold, doughnut . The expansion of Portuguese sea exploration was pioneered by Vasco da Gama. He was the first to discover the east coasts of India that help in the establishment of Portuguese. emergence OF OTHERS TRADE CENTERSDue to the oppressive administration and the high taxes, traders started to looked for other port such as Acheh and Brunei. They had finally switched to the other ports where they can be hardened fairly.PREACHINGLopez de Sequeira was assigned by Prince Henry to analyze the trade potentials in Malacca. He arrived at Malacca carrying with him a letter offer from the King. His project was to establish trade with Malacca. Bendahara Tun Mutahir and the officer who were powerful in the court were hostile towards the Christian. The merchants from Gujarat, who got the news the Portuguese aforethought(ip) to preached a holy war against those Muslims infidels. Unfortunately, because of the motive between Bendahara Tun Mutahir and Sultan Mahmud Shah, de Sequeira managed to get known a plot was planned to kill him and his is managed to escape from Malacca with his fleet, leaving behind several of his assistants as captives.ConclusionFrom the research we had get under ones skin, we conclude that Malacca Sultanate Empire had gone by means of three eras which are the beginning and the rise, the middle and the fall of the empire at the same time it contributes a special slots in Malaysian narration, because it is say to be the origin of the present sultanate of Malaysia. From the process that Malacca gone by means of we summarize that effective and systematic administration had lead Malacca to the beat outcome. The leader himself must be a role model to make the empire grow and unite the citizen. Citizens power cant be neglected because it influenced the development of any empire in the world including product and traders. 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