The Spanish and the Portuguese were both maritime superpowers who left their mark on history between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. Spain and Portugal shared a common location on the Iberian Peninsula, and both had free access to the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean....
From the 15th to the 17th centuries, the Spanish and Portuguese Empires were known for their global colonization power. From trading posts in Asia to structured colonies in the Americas, Spain and Portugal were among the first to realize the power of colonization and global...
In the textbook, Freedom on My Mind, the writers mentioned that the mortality rate for female slaves and child slaves is typically lower than that of male slaves. The primary source document, âGeneral Observations on the Management of Slaves, 1700â by James Barbot Jr. describes...
Film is one of the largest art forms across the globe. The idea of using films to draw attention to important social and political conversations is a common theme in all areas and cultures of film. In Portuguese cinema, specifically within the films âSaint Georgeâ...
The Portuguese established Jaffna as a city and their administrative center in 1621. Jaffna was primarily occupied by Catholics and merchants from Portugal, largely because it served as a key port to Sri Lanka. During the colonial period, the city was populated with Sinhalese, Tamils,...
Food often has a way of bringing people together, its enjoyment being shared amongst people globally, creating new experiences, which lead to new memories. These memories are what ties different foods to different places. People remember the flavours, atmosphere, and culture around them at the...
I chose to interview my great aunt, Ruth Cordeiro. She is Portuguese and still lives in Portugal to this day. I completed this interview over the telephone. In this interview I concentrated on the following points, language and verbal communication, non-verbal communication and family communication....
Starting from 1341, the first expedition to the Canary Islands, and with the expeditions to India, Brazil, and Japan, the Portuguese people opened their vision towards the undiscovered world. Besides reaching the goods that started to be traded (gold, silver, spices, silk, sugar, and slaves),...
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