Essay On Portuguese Colonialism

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Portuguese colonialism is a unique historical phenomenon. The Portuguese colonialists were the first to come to the countries of Africa and Asia, and the latter left from there. The parasitic social structure that they created could survive for 500 years - longer than any other form of colonialism created by the European powers in the New and Modern times. How can this historical paradox be explained? Does it have the character of a fatal accident or, on the contrary, is rigidly determined by any objective laws? What is the reason why the Portuguese colonialism was more tenacious than its British, French, Belgian and Dutch brethren in colonial plunder? Why the broad anti-colonial struggle in the Portuguese colonies began relatively late and than to explain that they achieved independence later than other colonies, not in the first wave of liberation of Africa (early 60s), and in the second (mid-70's) ? …show more content…

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This is confirmed by the fact that the regime of Caetano collapsed largely as a result of the fact that the decaying walls of its colonial empire crackled and shook. The national liberation movement undoubtedly played the role of a detonator in a complex of factors that led to a social explosion and the collapse of the fascist

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