Of course I read what you wrote; I think you know that too ;-)) I got a bit of hot patriotism from your text, which is understandable in view of the many inadequate representations and distortions that you rightly deplore. You make a conscious distinction between influence on land and in the area of the coasts and coastal seas. If you consider the former, England played the more formative role, and I say that as a non-friend of all colonisation. As far as harbours and sea routes are concerned, Portugal was probably the pioneer and placeholder - but not alone in the field. The English were there, the Italians (okay, historically correct probably the Venetians, but not the Genoese...) and the Chinese were an active seafaring nation in the Bay of Bengal... I'm not denying that your country had an outstanding presence there! I am relativising influencing factors...
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Obviously, all stories are relative, still, this is only one of them and, the undeniable fact is Portugal was the first global village. Allow me to publish a few more texts in this line and you will see that I don't deny the participation of others. History belongs to all of us.
Plus: I have no national fervor. I am European, in every sense. What I strive for is the presevation of our common culture, and the portuguese enterprise of exploration of the world is an important part of it, as were the histories of all european countries. Remember that Portugal was founded by a Borgougnoise and at some point, both The Netherlands, most of Germany, Sicily, Spain and Portugal were under the same King, and this wasn't the Roman Empire, it was in the same 17th Century that the English formed the East India Company. :)
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Highly welcome! ;-))
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