Fall+of+the+Portuguese+Empire+Essay

__ Fall of empire of Portuguese Empire  __ The Portuguese empire was once one of the most dominant and powerful countries in the world as seen by others. But every country has there periods in time where they are always in trouble for example New Orleans and hurricane Katrina. After every problem countries always find ways to become stronger from the tragedy that has happened to them such as 9/11 because after it happened Americans citizens had more trust in their government and security become tighter in all countries in the United States of America which is a good thing for the citizens which makes them trust. Portugal had a few bad tragedy’s that have affected the country in major ways, but after a while Portugal has put those memories behind them such as the earthquake, separation, importing and exporting. In hard times like that Portugal didn’t rely on anyone but themselves t fix their problems.

One of the big problems that happened to the Portuguese was the big earthquake in 1755 that devastated the city of Lisbon and the people and the government of Portugal. From that big problem the Portuguese didn’t going bothering other countries such as the U.S. for relief for money to help them fix their big problem or ask for relief like every other country does which leaves me to wonder how they got through it. But when you think about they had themselves to help each other in support to lend a helping hands to each other and share food and shelter to who ever needed it in that time of need.

Another tragedy that affected the Portuguese citizens was the separation of Brazil and Portugal in 1815 which of course had the people of both countries in a state of shock because they never expected anything like that to ever happen to such a social and political country such as Portugal. I guess that the people of Portugal and Brazil were good at decision making which did cause the government any problems because probably the area you lived in would determined whether you lived in Portugal or Brazil or you could probably choose which country u wanted to live in. Which here in Canada would have been decided by the government. In 1661 Portugal colonized Goa hoping for it to be there main posts for their trading and exporting goods to go through. But everything doesn’t work out as planned all the time because Portugal’s plan didn’t seem to work how they wanted it to because most of their goods were going through main Dutch, French , and Indian trading posts which probably made the Portuguese mad for a while. If this were to happens to Canadians now they would panic and find a way to waste more money to fix the problem.

Canada could learn a lot from the problems that other countries have had by becoming more individual and not need other people such as the government to always decide things for us or rely on other major countries to help us with stuff we need to be attended to. I think Canada could be a more independent country if we tried which I hope we could do in the future.

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