As France relinquished the last of its African empire, Portugal fought to maintain its overseas provinces. Examining this relationship reveals the uneven evolution of French attitudes towards Africa. Within the French state, some opposed Portugal's bloody colonial wars, while others believed that ...
The Aztecs were not loved, and their "empire" was a collection of subjugated tributary states, much of whose tribute was human. Several of them went over to the Spanish and provided essential aid in the overthrow of the Aztecs -- most significantly the Tlaxcalans, whose good services were ...
Europe flourished from this trade, but then the Mongol Empire fell and the Silk Roads closed. So, they needed a new route to China. The only problem was, almost no one had developed the maritime technology to sail there, and there were no maps to lead the way. The kingdom to figure...
a maritime town on the southern coast of Portugal on August 8, 1444. The shipment of 235 men, women, and children marked the establishment of the earliest slave market in Europe, and a segment of that initial African population would end up in Lisbon. A century later, Black Africans would...
Previous quantitative research found that just under a third of those registered by the consular services in London were born outside Portugal, an indication that the country retained its empire until the mid-1970s. Portugal's accession to Europe in 1986 permitted its former colonial subjects to ...