How a small country as Portugal with less than a million people at the time could have done such immense campaign around the world, discovering new COMERCIAL routes and at the same time being the 1st and longest empire on earth: Portuguese colonial campaigns Morocco (1415–1578) Guinea (1478) India (1501–02) India (1502) India (1504) Ceylon (1505) Indian Ocean (1505–17) India (1506) Persia (1507–1622) India (1508) India (1509) India (1510) Malacca (1511–1641) China (1521) China (1522) India (1526) Ethiopia (1529–59) India (1538–40) Indian Ocean (1538–57) India (1546) Arabian Peninsula (1548) Arabian Peninsula (1552–54) Ceylon (1557–58) Brazil (1558) Indian Ocean (1558–66) Ceylon (1559) Brazil (1567) Malacca (1568) Atlantic Ocean (1580–83) Indian Ocean (1580–89) Ceylon (1594) Java (1601) Malacca (1606) Malacca (1606) India (1612) Ceylon (1612-13) China (1622) Angola (1622) Brazil (1624) Persia (1625) Brazil (1625) Gold Coast (1625) Malacca (1629) Brazil (1630) Ceylon (1630) Brazil (1631) Gold Coast (1637) India (1638) Ceylon (1638) Brazil (1638) Brazil (1638) India (1639) Brazil (1640) Malacca (1640–41) Angola (1641–48) Brazil (1645) Angola (1647) Brazil (1648) Brazil (1649) Brazil (1652–54) Ceylon (1654) Ceylon (1654) Angola (1665) Angola (1670) Angola (1670) Brazil (1710) Brazil (1711) Banda Oriental (1735–37) India (1752) South America (1756) South America (1761–63) Sacramento (1762–63) South America (1776–77) Banda Oriental (1816–20) Brazil (1821–23) Angola (1902–1903) Angola (1907) Angola (1914–15) India (1954) India (1961) Africa (1961–74) Angola (1961–74) Guinea-Bissau (1963–74) Mozambique (1964–74)
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