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Portugal had a substantial role during the age of exploration, due to the sucess of Cristovão Colombo, the explorer that could managed to create one of the most lucrative trade routes by that time, linking Europe to Asia, and also discovered one of the richest deposit of gold in the age of exploration, the Brazilian islands of Fernando de Noronha, that is known for its beauty and natural resources such as gold, silver and Pau Brasil, a tree used to make red pigment for cloths that only the noble class had access by that time
Because all one point in our history, Britain took the US over so he might be afraid of that happening again and they weren’t very sorry the last time. We finally got our independence so we need to stay away from them lol
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