Sir John Hawkins (Westindia), Sir Francis Drake (around the world), Sir Walter Raleigh (North and South America), you name yourself: James Cook... They were a seafaring nation regardless of the sinking of the Armada...
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@weisser-rabe, you like books. Read this one:
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Or this one:
https://www.amazon.com/-/pt/dp/0812994000/ref=mes-dp?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=a3jPO&content-id=amzn1.sym.7d2923e8-7496-46a5-862d-8ef28e908025&pf_rd_p=7d2923e8-7496-46a5-862d-8ef28e908025&pf_rd_r=BD2STEAJM7W85XYF0TY8&pd_rd_wg=ok2DL&pd_rd_r=e733c8c2-19da-4d4c-a5de-0852284cb1f6
None written by Portuguese. There's absolutely no patriotism in this... it's just History.
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I will check both. Will be back with praise or critics... ;-))
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Yes they were. In a later period..around the world was Ferdinand Magellan. A portuguese Sod. Died in the Phillipines. The journey was finished by his pilot Elcano. :)
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Yes, I've read the Magellan biography by Stefan Zweig... Very exciting!
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Curiosly, German Scholars appear to be more interested in Portuguese History than our own... I have a friend, Rainer Daenhart, the most knowlegeable person about portuguese history orf armory... Guess what: German. I find that rather incredible.
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The English were a sefaring nation after the portuguese and building upon the scientific knowlegde and shipbuilding skills developed by them earlier. The Portuguese were already mapping the Atlantic and the route to India in the late 1300's, the English took 3 full centuries to catch up.
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It's a whole period in history that is not well publicised because it was a cultural flag of our previous nationalistic dictatorship and our Cultural Institutions, after the very left leaning revolution relegated that part of history to some dusty corner. Then, Hollywood is all about english language, history and promoting a North Amerocentric cultural paradigm. There is a lot more and more interesting story before the Pirates of the Caribbean. Have you ever hear of the pirates of the barbary coast? El cid? The portuguese ports of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombeb by the Americans... Did you know that those were the entry points of Europeans into Japan?
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About El Cid I've read, too... By the way: What will historians report about the present days? What truths will be popular, what information will be considered important...?
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As I said... You are a smart cookie.
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