Answer to Question #275989 in History for Kelsey Jand

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Question: How long was Portugal imperialized?

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Answer 1

According to Valerio (2021), the Portuguese rule was one of the longest-lived empires in European history, lasting almost six centuries from the conquest of Ceuta in North Africa, in 1415, to the transfer of sovereignty over Macau to China in 1999. It was this search that led the Portuguese down the coast of West Africa to Sierra Leone in 1460. Due to several technological and cultural advantages, Portugal dominated world trade for nearly 200 years, from the fifteenth to the sixteenth century.

Reference

Valerio, M. A. (2021). Architects of their own humanity: race, devotion, and artistic agency in Afro-Brazilian confraternal churches in eighteenth-century Salvador and Ouro Preto. Colonial Latin American Review, 30(2), 238-271.