Portugal

How exactly did Portugal go from world Superpower to irrelevant European country?

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The Spanish cucked them out of the riches of America and they were actually pretty bad at fighting natives

Didn't the British usurp them in the tea trade while they were controlling the Dutch East Indies?

Sometimes being irelevant but first world and safe is better than being powerful but shithole

Look at China, is one of the most powerful countries but it's a shithole for most people. Portugal is one of the safest places in Europe.

It got cucked by Spain for a while.

Then it lost most of its Indian Ocean colonies to the Dutch.

Then it got invaded by Napoleon.

It basically got overshadowed by even more powerful Empires such as the British, French and soon enough the Germans.

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Actually Portugal had an empire when Spaniards were niggers

D. Sebastião died leading a noble but disastrous campaign in Morocco. His death results in his great uncle, Henrique, an aged and celibate cardinal ascending to the throne. Henrique dies less than two years later without an heir, resulting ultimately in the forceful annexation of Portugal by Philip II of Spain.

Portugal's new, constrained position is made worse by the growing naval strength of the Dutch and the English, the latter now being enemies of the Portuguese. Philip III of Spain was an out-and-out idiot who seemingly went out of his way to provoke the Portuguese and drive them further into irrelevance. The result being the Restoration War, in which the Portuguese regained sovereignty. They never managed to regain their former strength, however, and slowly but surely faded into obscurity.

The fact that nearly the entire world then sided against them many years later in the Colonial [Civil] War essentially put an end to their empire for good.

A few lessons to be learned:
1. Don't go gallivanting off on a crusade without an heir.
2. Don't trust or intermarry with the Spanish.
3. Americans will stick their noses where they don't belong and cause trouble always and everywhere.

No relevant industry.

it was like spinach to popeye lol

The Portuguese only have themselves to blame.

Our royals always behaved like niggers with too much gold on their hands.

Few leaders had the vision of Vasco da Gama or Marquess of Pombal. Our history is rich and our language is beautiful but we're too little... not only geographically but also in mind (although we are compensating it big time, finding the "openness" of Western Europeans are becoming their own traps).

But yeah... we've been fucked by Spain and England a couple of times. Then the socialists did the rest.

The only good things about being a portuguese is the british and the german girls in Lisbon and Algarve.

The fact that they were a small nation with relatively few resources and even less manpower eventually caught up to the boon they got from early exploration.

>we're too little... not only geographically but also in mind
I'd push back on that. If anything the Portuguese were too great in their aspirations. The shocking thing is that they came very close to achieving them.

By 1550 their negroid population was 8%. Two centuries and a half later they had almost no pure negroid population. They got negrified and became irrelevant p.

Brazil was (and is) the richest part of america in terms of natural resources.

This is true sinced we lost the colonies (in 74). Up to that point the portuguese empire was the world's biggest producer of steel and coffee for example.

right in the comfies

Brazil was way richer than all the Spanish colonies in South America. Owning a sugar plantation was like having a oil well back in the day. The Portuguese strategy was not fighting the natives but making deals. Their methods of colonisation were way different from the Spanish, you can't compare.

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They've trusted the anglo.

On the other side, we just went full honor retarded until we get completely destroyed making so many enemies.

this country is soo sad, in summer tourists everywere to the point they totally ofuscate the city and in wintr its a boring desert, cold full of poor people


really disgusting place actually,, I mean what it represents.

FUCKING SEBASTIÃO

LOST TO FUCKING MOORS

Fun Fact

Portugal was fascist until the mid 70's

That's not fun, it's sad (that it ended)

>Fast and Furious as historical source

top kek

What actually happened was pretty much this:

>shore indians were often used as allies for wars and granted local levels of authority by the portuguese for their usefulness
>country indians were enslaved by those other indians who joined european colonies because alcohol tastes good and they liked the BWC
>jesuits think it's bad and prohibit indian slavery
>indians still flood portuguese colonies and mix in with the locals despite of the intellectuals calling a massacre that never happened like in America
>the few indians who were decent to reject being cucked by the free brazilian colonies moved their nomad tribes to within the Amazon / West regions. They're still there today.

Basically Portugal never gave a fuck and Spain never tried to colonize Brazil like the Fast and Furious movies say. They had the Treaty of Tordesillas that prohibited Spain from touching Brazil.

Reminder that Galicia is rightful Portuguese clay!

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>who joined european colonies because alcohol tastes good and they liked the BWC
Well isn't that what they say in the video? They provided them with things they couldn't have. The Portuguese strategy in all their colonies was always based in trade deals more than violence.

>our language is beautiful

Your language sounds like you took Latin, ass raped it chopped it up, fed it to a nigger, pulled it out of his ass, ass raped it some more, then tried to put it back together with cod fish oil and custard. Its literally the fucking down syndrome child of Latin. Thank God the Brazilian abos and Angolans fixed it for you fucking autistic neanderthals.


Seriously, I think Portuguese is the only white language in history that was ever made better by teaching it to niggers.

I thought Portugal was better than Spain in terms of quality of life

Not really that simple.

Portugal could never be a colonial power like Spain, France or England. We simply did not have the population or resources to do so.

What we did was kind of brilliant. We built or stole small cities that would be easier to govern and control while trading with the natives.

Spain never cucked us. They inherited Portugal for 3 generations I don't think Spain has ever had a great military success against us otherwise we would just be part of Spain.

Why we lost our power? Retard leaders and the fact our country was unable to evolve and didn't catch up to modern logistics and similar stuff and that left us behind.

You can make more money in Spain but with 200€ spare euros a month you can live a somewhat bohemian life here.

Some people get out of work, have something for dinner and then go chug beers to the local pub. Everyday.

Burgerland and the Soviets sponsored communist gorillas to "liberate" their colonies.

We talking about languages now?
>English sounds like low toned penguins
>Spanish sounds like whiny child with down syndrome
>Portuguese just sounds like a pissed off mumbling teenager with down syndrome.
>French sounds like Spanish & Portuguese put together while someone has a sore throat and is gargling water.