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===== Mozambique ===== |
===== Mozambique ===== |
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The Mozambique coast was first explored in the late 15th century by Portuguese voyages in the search of routes to India. Later in the 16th century, the first permanent settlements in the region were established |
The Mozambique coast was first explored in the late 15th century by Portuguese voyages in the search of routes to India. Later in the 16th century, the first permanent settlements in the region were established. By 1900, the colony of Mozambique expanded into the interior of the continent to the point of reaching Lake Malawi. In the beginning of the 20th century, Mozambique borders British East Africa to the north, the Zambezi Protectorates to the west and the British South African protectorates to the southwest. |
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===== Namibia ===== |
===== Namibia ===== |
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Composed for the most part by hot deserts, Namibia wasn’t of interest to European nations until the late 19th century |
Composed for the most part by hot deserts, Namibia wasn’t of interest to European nations until the late 19th century. Competing with Britain, and fearing at some point the Cape Republic might get the territory, Portugal sent expeditions to the region in the late 19th century, and discovered rich mineral deposits in the interior of the Namibian Desert. After the discovery, the Portuguese government quickly started settlement missions in the area. |
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===== Zambezian Protectorates ===== |
===== Zambezian Protectorates ===== |
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===== North Atlantic and Gulf of Guinea ===== |
===== North Atlantic and Gulf of Guinea ===== |
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Explorations in the North Atlantic and Gulf of Guinea made Portugal reach Cape Verde, São Tomé e Príncipe and Bioko in the late 15th century. The majority of these islands, with the exception of Bioko, didn't had any human inhabitant until European arrival, so it was necessary to bring enslaved individuals from the Africa mainland to serve as the work force. The economy of those islands were based on plantations of sugar, cocoa, shiping activities and slave trade. |
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Portuguese Guinea is the largest holding in the region, and the only one which is not an island. The Portuguese presence in the coast of Guinea dates since the XIV century, when outpost for trade, especially slave trade, with the natives were build. In the late 19th century, Portugal expanded into the African interior, reaching the Niger River basin. By 1900, Portuguese Guinea bordered Swedish Guinea, Genoese Guinea, Spanish Guinea, French Niger and many African states such as the Tukulor Empire. |
Portuguese Guinea is the largest holding in the region, and the only one which is not an island. The Portuguese presence in the coast of Guinea dates since the XIV century, when outpost for trade, especially slave trade, with the natives were build. In the late 19th century, Portugal expanded into the African interior, reaching the Niger River basin. By 1900, Portuguese Guinea bordered Swedish Guinea, Genoese Guinea, Spanish Guinea, French Niger and many African states such as the Tukulor Empire. |
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===== Macau ===== |
===== Macau ===== |
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Macau was established by a deal between Portugal and Ming China in 1557. Portugal could annex a small portion of the coast and build a port for their ships, in exchange, China would receive an annual payment. Portugal kept the payment until the mid-19th century, when the Kingdom of Canton was established. |
Macau was established by a deal between Portugal and Ming China in 1557. Portugal could annex a small portion of the coast and build a port for their ships, in exchange, China would receive an annual payment. Portugal kept the payment until the mid-19th century, when the Kingdom of Canton was established. |
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=== United kingdom with Brazil === |
=== United kingdom with Brazil === |
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==== The Luso-Brazilian Compromise (1922) ==== |
==== The Luso-Brazilian Compromise (1922) ==== |
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The end of the colonial rule in Carolina sparked once again the feeling of nationalism and independence in Brazil, many republican authors, republican associations and communard societies across Brazil started to advocate for the end of Portuguese rule in the continent. These ideals gained more force after Brazil got hit directly by the economic crisis in Europe during most of the 1920s. |
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The economic crisis hit Brazil severely, coffee customers across the world, Brazil’s most important economic partners, started to reduce the purchase of the product, thus the many coffee plantations started to suffer from overproduction and devaluation of the prices. Many businesses closed and unemployment skyrocketed. In this context, opposition to the semi-colonial government of Brazil started to gain force. Many saw the problem as consequences of the crown heavily influencing the political and economic decisions, and from August 1922 to November of the same year, protests demanding more political freedoms, and in the most radical cases, total independence, started to happen. |
The economic crisis hit Brazil severely, coffee customers across the world, Brazil’s most important economic partners, started to reduce the purchase of the product, thus the many coffee plantations started to suffer from overproduction and devaluation of the prices. Many businesses closed and unemployment skyrocketed. In this context, opposition to the semi-colonial government of Brazil started to gain force. Many saw the problem as consequences of the crown heavily influencing the political and economic decisions, and from August 1922 to November of the same year, protests demanding more political freedoms, and in the most radical cases, total independence, started to happen. |
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* A common Ministry of Foreign Affairs, responsible for diplomacy and foreign policy, comprised from both Portuguese and Brazilian integrants; |
* A common Ministry of Foreign Affairs, responsible for diplomacy and foreign policy, comprised from both Portuguese and Brazilian integrants; |
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* Brazil would engage in every conflict which Portugal is involved; |
* Brazil would engage in every conflict which Portugal is involved; |
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* Brazil would have the right to vote |
* Brazil would have the right to vote for the Luso-brazilian Parliament in decisions of nationwide effects. |
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== See also == |
== See also == |