Excerpt from Vasco Da Gama: And His Successors, 1460-1580 The lives of all these men are but episodes in one great drama, of which the whole Portuguese nation is the protagonist. In 1460 Portugal was one among several petty Iberian principalities by 1521 it had become an empire of world wide fame, with dominions extending eastward from Brazil to the Pacific. Then followed a period of decline, caused partly by certain defects of national character, but more by the pressure of inevitable misfortune, which ended in the loss ...
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Excerpt from Vasco Da Gama: And His Successors, 1460-1580 The lives of all these men are but episodes in one great drama, of which the whole Portuguese nation is the protagonist. In 1460 Portugal was one among several petty Iberian principalities by 1521 it had become an empire of world wide fame, with dominions extending eastward from Brazil to the Pacific. Then followed a period of decline, caused partly by certain defects of national character, but more by the pressure of inevitable misfortune, which ended in the loss not only of greatness but even of independence. In 1580 Portugal entered upon what is known as the Spanish Captivity, and became for sixty years - in fact, though never in constitutional theory - a subject province of Spain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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