Why did Portugal fall?

THE DUTCH, THE DAMNED DUTCH

>>3038954
>comfy country with best football player in the world
>fall

Portugal is fine desu

>>3038954
A crazy shitty king that wasnt raised properly and was overzelous, we went to war with Morroco, got a few wins and he got cocky, any other general would have backed out but he went and faced an army 3 times the size of the portuguese army, ofc we lost, he left no children, because he was a fucking idiot, so the next in line was the Spanish king, since our army had just been destroyed in North Africa he just took the throne, we entered an Union with Spain and got dragged into their wars, the Dutch took advantage of our weakness and took the East colonies, and England which could have helped us was now our enemy because of Spain. That was pretty much it.

the Iberian Union also did not help.

>>3039007
no it isn't

go look for a job mr portard

>>3039010
yeah that sums it. it was the beggining of the decline to the empire of Portugal.

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>>3038954
Soviet-American cooperation

>>3038954
Classic Catholic incompetence

>>3039210
this

like most civilizations: because dick-ass Euros

>>3038954
Because they crossed the road

>>3038954
They had a very small population

Germanic and Slavic chimpouts.

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>>3039210
Really makes me think

last I checked portugal was still around

albeit in a also ran sort of form

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>>3038954
The lease ran out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_of_sovereignty_over_Macau

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>>3040748
;_;

>>3041051
>Implying
Macau isn't Hong Kong that B'awwwed at britain handing them back.

Macau never gave a shit and just threw the dice.

>>3041051
Macau.png makes me sad

How has nobody mentioned this yet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1755_Lisbon_earthquake

Basically a gigantic earthquake devasted the country and caused them to be unable to fund and defend the colonies.

>>3039210
They still wouldve rebelled regardless anon.

>>3039210
Holy crap. Still, why didn't those retards started to decolonize early?
They could have had a portuguese commonwealth.

Now nobody cares about them.

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>>3041661
The investment in it also started late - only after Brazil gets their independence. And they weren't called colonies but ultramarine provinces

>>3039007
>First global empire from Asia to America
>Only famous figure in the late 400 years is a football player

How is that fine ?

>>3041721
>Portugal
>YES

You call this fascist propaganda?

>>3039007
messi is portuguese?

>>3041821
1) it isn't about mixing people
2) it wasn't exactly a fascist regime because it involved the Church etc etc

>>3041749
>Magellan
>Luis de Camoes
>Diogo Cao
>Bartholomeu Dias
>Vasco da Gama
>St Anthony of Padua
>Francis of Assis
>Egas Moniz
>Fernando Pessoa
>Salazar

Now you know some Portuguese historical figures. No need to thank me, always happy to help the less informed.

>>3041898

>Magellan
>Luis de Camoes
>Diogo Cao
>Bartholomeu Dias
>Vasco da Gama
>St Anthony of Padua
>Francis of Assis
I said "in the late 400 years", those are largely influential and famous people, that's why it's sad that there was no one else ever since
>Egas Moniz
>Fernando Pessoa
Litteral "Who ?" outside Portugal (Okay maybe not Pessoa)
>Salazar
Famous because he was a dictator but still largely unkown outside Portugal

They didn't fall, they just lost colonies to dutch, spans, etc, and lost out on the colonies, but kept their ground at home, they just declined

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>>3041821
>Salazarism
>racism
pick one and only one

>>3041898
is Magellan considered a portuguese hero?
I mean the guy was a fucking traitor to the crown

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>>3039007
NÓS

>>3041721
>>3042130
Why were the portuguese more willing to integrate than other colonial powers?

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>>3039210
MALAWI IS WHITE!!!

>>3042254
because portuguese women wear moustaches so they guys would sex anything

>>3042254
Some hypothesis are

i) small population
ii) strong christianity
iii) the acceptance that we were mixed since the roman conquest

>>3041821
Portuguese people are top of the totem always and the system made it as such. Only until the pressure from natives rebel or not that the state made concessions in an attempt to appease the masses.

>>3039210
>tfw my dad fought in the racewar
>tfw he believes another one is coming
>he thinks this time we will actually end all niggers

true story

>>3042254
more contact with other peoples and cultures from early on

>>3041132
That's not really true.

>>3041286
The capital nonetheless

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>>3042797
>he thinks this time we will actually end all niggers
let's hope your dad's right anon

>>3042138
He's alright

>>3042797
You'll turn all black?

>>3042138
He's a cool explorer. Also his portuguese genes named the biggest ocean in the world, so that's cool

>>3043069
>Prof. Chibanga, sou PIDE

HOLY FUCK I NEARLY DIED

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>>3043069

>>3038954
Overachieved and couldn't hold it all together