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Portuguese colonies, unlike Spanish colonies, spread across four continents - Africa, Asia, South America, and Oceania. Additionally, Portuguese colonies, such as Brazil and Mozambique, had significant indigenous populations that mixed with Portuguese settlers, leading to the development of distinct cultural identities.
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Indian slavery was made illegal during the colonial era.
Because it was colonized by the Spanish and Portuguese.
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To work for them.
The primary difference between the Spanish and Portuguese empires was their geographical focus and their colonial strategies. The Spanish empire focused on the Americas, particularly Central and South America, while the Portuguese empire focused on maritime exploration and colonization in Africa, Asia, and Brazil. The Portuguese established a vast trading network, while the Spanish sought to extract valuable resources, such as gold and silver, from their American colonies.
Peninsulares.
Portuguese colonies, unlike Spanish colonies, spread across four continents - Africa, Asia, South America, and Oceania. Additionally, Portuguese colonies, such as Brazil and Mozambique, had significant indigenous populations that mixed with Portuguese settlers, leading to the development of distinct cultural identities.
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The 18th century reforms in portugese and spanish colonies were similar in the creation of more viceroyalties for better defense and administration, lessening of the Catholic church's influence in political decisions and the removal of Creoles from administrative positions
Whether these colonies were established by the British, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish or any others, political systems changed because American colonies began to declare independence from their European leaders.
Whether these colonies were established by the British, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish or any others, political systems changed because American colonies began to declare independence from their European leaders.
Countries south of United States, Mexico, Central American countries and South American countries are old colonies of Spanish and Portuguese Empires. That's for they speak Spanish in most of the Central and South America, but Portuguese in Brazil. All the countries are mostly catholic, because of their catholic mothercountries. The Spanish conquistadors conquered the lands from Native Americans, of most notables were aztecs and incas. Mayan civilization collapsed before the Europeans came to America. The Native American religions were suppressed, although there are Native American population majorities in some South American countries, like Peru.
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