How Portuguese Culture Affected The Development Of Portugal

The three colonial empires of Portugal, Spain, and England were the most dominate in the fight for land in the Americas. While the motivations for these three colonial empires were similar and all of the Native Americans and/or Africans saw the Spanish Portuguese and English as one brutally similar people, economic differences between the three of them would ensure that their colonies would develop in dramatically unique ways.

When the Spanish and Portugal had the Treaty of Tordesillas it separated them splitting up the land of which each empire could conquer. The Spanish had a very large part of the Americas while the Portuguese only had the area of Brazil. The Spanish began a conquest of Mexico they fought with the Tlateloclan warriors and the Spaniards entirely defeated them so they could fully take over their land (Tlatelolcan Elder, 564). While Spain took control over the western part of the Americas Portugal was fighting for the land they were given in the east, Brazil. When Pedro Alvares Cabral first went to the land of Brazil he was very unimpressed with the people and the land there he went back to the King of Portugal, Manoel, and reported this to him, he described how the people looked and acted to Manoel. (Encounter in Brazil, 571). Through these primary sources you can see the Portuguese and Spanish are taking control of what is theirs. This led to conflicts between the stronger and weaker empires as they tried to gain more land to become wealthy. Many empires were also trying to gain kingdoms in Africa to keep the slave trade alive so slaves could keep producing good in the Americas. There were other conflicts between empires and it impacted the empires of the globe of how powerful and they would

In the 17th Century, the Dutch (the Netherlands) became a power.  Golden Age.  It fought 3 great Anglo-Dutch naval battles.  The Dutch Republic became a leading colonial power, with by far its greatest activity in the East Indies.

Lisbon is the capital of geography and navigation. Christopher found a job as a map maker and sea charter, and he sometimes he accompanied captains on their voyages. He tried to make a proposition with the portuguese king, to see if you would allow him to travel list of africa but it came turn down the offer.proposition with the portuguese king, to see if he would fund an expedition to travel west of Africa, but it king turn down the offer. He asked the Spanish rulers Ferdinand and Isabella but they turn down the offer as well. The queen of Spain agreed to fund the expedition, but only after learning that Columbus was going to ask the king of

25. In the end, Portugal was unable to maintain its early domination of trade because

“Compare and contrast the early colonial empires of Portugal, Spain, and England in terms of motives, economic foundations, and relations with Africans and Native Americans. What factors explain the similarities and differences in the two ventures?”

To begin with, Portuguese had more motivations and perceptions compared to Ming Chinese and since, Portugal was able to dominate the Indian Ocean while China can not. There were 3 reasons why Portugal had more success time than China and I believe that those 3 reasons are military force, idea and culture(the way they think). For example, Portugal was compared with fearful animals, other countries admired them and China stopped the trade with foreign countries because they were scared of attacks and invasions from Portugal. First, according to document 3,8 and 10 several countries in Asia were scared of Portuguese military force because in document 10 the chronicles of the Kings of Sri Lanka(Ceylon) in 1498 showed his fear toward Portugal

It remained under the rule of Visigoth until Islam’s arrival via the Moors in 711 CE. From being the westernmost part of the Roman Empire to western-most part of the Islamic empire. They created one of the longest and lasting maritime empires in history after their Reconquista in 1250 and made a treaty of Ayllon with Castile to continue the Crusade against Muslims and regain the spoils of war from the port. Portugal found a sea route to India onwards Asia. They build trading post and forts. They defeated Goa in India and set a foothold in Asia. They colonized Brazil in 1530 so that they can defend it. Their ulterior motive was to divide Brazil into 15 capitanias so that enough wealth to support a settlement

Portugal got some of Spain’s land in Africa and Asia, as well as present-day Brazil. Spain got the rest.

It seems, however; that all of the lands that they now possess would have caused them political trouble because they would have more regions to watch over, but conquering gave Spain and Portugal power because they gave their people protection in exchange of loyalty. The land overall made Spain and Portugal more powerful because it had shown other competing regions that they had a strong political power and more allies

Much like the U.S., Brazilian culture is extremely diverse. Brazil’s current population of 190 million represents various nationalities from European to African (Country Facts). Brazil has an extremely diverse culture with some common pervasive threads that grouped together give Brazil a national identity.

During the 15th through 16th centuries, The Portuguese and Spanish explorers were very attracted to valuable resources, new land, and trade routes. These motives encouraged them to seek out new explorations and search for items that would benefit their home countries. Common resources that both the Spanish and Portuguese sought out included silks, porcelain, spices, persian horses, silver, and gold (Chasteen, 2001). Although the Portuguese and Spanish explored and sought out new land for many of the same reasons, they also had some different causes for exploration which were often very specific to the needs and goals of Portugal and Spain.

Christendom the first and foremost motivation of the Portuguese sent by their king was greed . They were conquistadors bent conquering natives and taking riches home not on colonizing new lands . The Portuguese were so obsessed with gold that they saw it when there was none such as the case with the Indian and rosary beads . Yet they found no gold or riches of any kind. In fact, the name of the land changed from the holy Santa Cruz to the name of a wood used for dyeing cloth Brazil . Point of fact if it had not been for the French incursions into brazil the Portuguese would probably not have set up a settlement at all in the land . At first they only sent brazil wood, enslaved Indians, and some exotic animals back to the home county . Eventually,

European colonialism changed the economy in Brazil drastically. The country went basically from hunters and gatherers to a major source of goods for exports do largely to the Portuguese. Portugal explored Brazil because of the European commercial expansion of the fifteen and sixteenth centuries. Portugal began in the fifteenth century to search for other routes to the sources of goods valued in European markets. At first the Portuguese did not find mineral riches in their American colony, but did not lose hope. The Portuguese had to defend the Brazil from European intruders, they did this by establishing a pioneer colonial enterprise. They began to produce sugar, and then in 1531 cattle began to arrive in Brazil, and developed quickly as an industry. The cattle developed to the needs of the sugar industry for transportation and food for the workers. (5)

The Government of Portugal requested a financial bailout to the IMF in 2011. Together with the commencement of the IMF intervention, a political crisis gives place to anticipated legislative elections and a right-wing colligation becomes in charge of implementing policy adjustments for the coming 4 years. Although not discarding the Portuguese political outlook, the current case study aims to assess if the IMF intervention in Portugal has affected the public subsidisation of the cultural sector and if so, to understand forms of cultural practice affected by that intervention.