Spanning many centuries, from early Moorish times to the Atlantic Empire; the English Alliance of 1650 – 1900; African colonies; the Salazar regime; and the country’s liberal revolution in 1974, Malyn Newitt offers a fresh appraisal of Portuguese history and its role in the world. he had 3 continents as part of his empire and founded nearly 70 modern cities throughout his empire. Yes, the portuguese were the first european “world empire” building nations. Under the leadership of Ghengis Khan (1163-1227), it started small—basically just present-day Mongolia—but within seventy years it had grown into the largest contiguous land Empire in human history, eventually stretching from Eastern Europe to the Sea of Japan. The high intelligibility between Portuguese and Spanish is a real assest for speakers of these two languages. When it comes to’ importance’ I think it is mainly to do with the global impact.In this case,my point of view is, it is the Mongol Empire that goes as Number One.Although they were natourious for their “we came we saw we destroy’ way of conquering countries(including Myanmar,my home land),they deserve sure credit for reopening long blocked trade route(by turks) between china and eroupe,and channeling those most important inventions(paper,compass,paper money,gunpowder,advanced medical knowledgesof the east..) into the west, thus one way or another finally leading us into this modern world. The list can go on, and on, and on, and on…….. Its bad enough you put the Spanish in the list (since every history man will agree that the spanish empire actually underachieved when compared to the portuguese), but you don’t even reference the portuguese, and thats just shamefull. By Tim Lambert. Very good list though, and particularly astute to include the Umayyads rather than the Abbasids. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity", "Note Upon the Natives of Savage Island, or Niue", Tea Party Culture War: A Clash of Worldviews, "Nation-states as empires, empires as nation-states: two principles, one practice? Then came the dutch. Which one is bigger? There is hardly any place in the world that was not touched, influenced by Portugal in some way, shape or form, either linguistically, culturally, religiously, architecturally, technologically/scientifically, intellectually, etc, etc. CPLP was formed in 1996 with seven countries: Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe. The Mayan Civilization was not an empire, but competing city-states that traded and occasionally went to war with each other.
