Redpill me on the difference between Portugal and Spain

Redpill me on the difference between Portugal and Spain.
Know litterally nothing about Portugal other than that they buy fish from us.
Looks nice tho, would like to visit some time.

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Same than the difference between Germany and the Netherlands

Coming from the same common people, our political history takes place differently and that causes our language and identity to take two different tracks.

There is none, simply independent provinces.

This desu.

Also we split the world into two: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tordesillas

NL and Germany is more a split on cause (NL mostly mercantile in nature, germany mostly imperial in nature) and culture, whereas Portugal and Spain is split on just culture.

>(NL mostly mercantile in nature, germany mostly imperial in nature)
NL is probably as much, if not more, imperialistic than Germany.
Also, Germany literally started the Hanseatic League which is arguably the second most influential trading league.

Portugal and Spain however could be seen as mercantile expansion (Portugal) vs imperial consolidation of land (Spain) way more than NL vs Germany.

>Portugal and Spain is split on just culture

culture, geography and language, the only thing we have in common is the frontier.

I guess our stranglehold on the market with the VOC/WIC could be called imperial but it wasn't for land. We just extorted the population for the big profits.

>Split on geography
Very true

Is there a huge difference between Portuguese and Spanish? Honestly they sound rather similar to me.

That's not really true. The geography is pretty much the same. Language and culture wise we're very similar too, culture being a corrupt hard catholic one with some old celtic/pagan elements, and the languages sharing 89% of their vocabulary.

That's literally the same as us vs. Spain then. We even started the Atlantic slave trade.