Why did Portugal failed to industrialize? It could have been

Spanish rule destroyed our navy and army fighting the British.
Very, very bad kings and administration.
Lisbon earthquake.
Lost of Brazil.
British stabbing us in the back in Africa.

>>1777666
>British stabbing us in the back in Africa.
Based rhodes

>>1777666

none of those things are valid excuses

why did you failed to english?

>>1777666
waste of trips, not real explanations

>>1777622
dumb culture

>>1777758
>Napy invade
>Their oldest ally stab them in the back.
Believing the anglo, not even once.

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>>1777622
They had little industry and low urbanization rates throughout most the the Late Medieval and Early Modern period. Industrialization doesn't just poof into existence.

Having a retarded neighbor didn't help much either.

>>1777676
>>1777942
how can you industrialize if you're in massive debt, your population is completely illiterate and all your allies turn against you?
if that's not enough, salazar put all his effort on agriculture when he could have industrialized, embargos during our colonial war (by NATO ALLIES) didn't help either

>>1777666
You actually wasted money investing in your fucking colonies and neglected your industrialization and development back home. If that isn't pure unfiltered stupidity then I don't know what is.

What are the first couple of places to industrialize in Europe? Gb, belgium, the netherlands? Examine why they do it and find out why portugal doesn't. Pro-tip: its thr intersection of embracing commerical society and resource endowments

Didn't Salazar neglect general education on purpose so that there would be less factory workers and intelligentsia and therefore less communists? Or is it a meme?

>>1778925
It's true
It was mainly done in the colonies (Azores included )

>T.a modern colonial