2. History of Portugal
• In the next two centuries, Portugal gradually
lost much of its wealth
• Signs of military began with two disastrous
battles: the Battle of Alcacer Quibir, Morocco
in 1578 and Spain's abortive try to conquer
England in 1588.
• From the middle of the 19th century to the
late 1950s, two-million Portuguese left Europe
to live in Brazil and the United States.
3. The Monarchy in Portugal
• In 1910, there was a revolution that deposed
the monarchy
• The republic was unable to solve the
country's problems.
• The new government instituted sweeping
democratic reforms and granted
independence to all of Portugal's African
colonies in 1975.
4. Portugal in the Period of the
Discoveries
• July 25, 1415 marked the beginning of the
Portuguese Empire, when the Portuguese
Armada departed to the rich trade Islamic
Centre of Ceuta in North Africa with King John
I.
• Between 1427 and 1431, most of the Azorean
islands were discovered and these
uninhabited islands were colonized by the
Portuguese in 1445.
5. Portuguese Empire
• Was the first global empire in history.
• The Muslim attempt to retake Ceuta was
ultimately unsuccessful and Ceuta remained
the first part of the new Portuguese Empire.
• Soon it expanded the Portuguese Empire.
• The Portuguese did not give up their
exploratory efforts.
• In 1448, on a small island known as Arguim off
the coast of Mauritania, a castle was built.
6. Colonial Brazil
• In the history of Brazil, Colonial Brazil, the
period from 1500, with the arrival of the
Portuguese, until 1815, when Brazil was
elevated to kingdom.
