portugal

Period 1

Western Europe 

Small country

Touches Atlantic ocean 

Period 2

Age of exploration 

• Starts it in the mid-1400s when Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator builds a school of navigation which the goal of sending Portuguese ships around Africa to find an alternative maritime route to India 

• This is accomplished by Vasco DeGama

• Portugal will begin infiltration western Africa and dominate the coast

• Second country after Spain to get to the new world but will only gain Brazil because of the treaty Tordesillas 

• Member of encomdienda system and West African slave trade since they control many ports along south africa  

Period 3

• Portugal loses Brazil in the Brazilian Revolution in which the king and queen of Portugal are overthrown by their son Pedro the first

• Revolution happens after the Latin American/Mexican revolution since the king and queen lived in Brazil upon fleeing Portugal when Napoleon invades

Imperialism 

• Berlin conference who receives territory

• They get Angola which has ten-plus ethnic groups and religions that are forced to form one nation