Complex sentence: The colonial Portuguese conquerors attempted to establish a presence by conquering islands and ports, force converting those they met into Roman Catholicism with the ritual of making the converts eat beef and pork as a confirmation that they have given up Hinduism or Islam.
Split into simpler sentences: The colonial Portuguese conquerors attempted to establish a presence by conquering islands and ports, force converting those they met into Roman Catholicism. The conversion ritual involved making the converts eat beef and pork as a confirmation that they have given up Hinduism or Islam.