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Why were the Portuguese claims in the Americas relatively limited?

they couldn't own other land because it was already owned by the dutch and the Spanish.


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Date to 1492.


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What place in the Americas was influenced by Portuguese culture?

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What is a person called who is of pure Spanish or Portuguese descent and is born in the Americas?

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