Donald Trump, our imperialist in chief, is talking about annexing or taking over Greenland. The Vance family checked it out. Based on my recent spin through sunny Portugal, we ought to buy it instead.
Whoa, steady on! The Africans had been slave trading for millennia before the Portuguese ever showed up. As had the Arabs (slave trading Africans, that is.) Maybe the Ports invented the _Transatlantic_ African Slave trade, but even then, it might be more a certain special kind of "Portuguese" who did that.
> "major holdings being Brazil, Angola, Mozambique and Macau."
Don't forget Goa! And Timor, and dozens of islands and coastal entrepots. Yeah, I know you said "major", but I wouldn't be surprised if some of those islands and entrepots didn't produce more imperial revenue than the big map-ink users.
Thanks. I think at one point I had 'Transatlantic' in there but it must have fallen off in my struggles. And please give my apologies to the Timorians and Goatians. Tell them I didn't have enough room for them.
> "they invented the African slave trade"
Whoa, steady on! The Africans had been slave trading for millennia before the Portuguese ever showed up. As had the Arabs (slave trading Africans, that is.) Maybe the Ports invented the _Transatlantic_ African Slave trade, but even then, it might be more a certain special kind of "Portuguese" who did that.
> "major holdings being Brazil, Angola, Mozambique and Macau."
Don't forget Goa! And Timor, and dozens of islands and coastal entrepots. Yeah, I know you said "major", but I wouldn't be surprised if some of those islands and entrepots didn't produce more imperial revenue than the big map-ink users.
Thanks. I think at one point I had 'Transatlantic' in there but it must have fallen off in my struggles. And please give my apologies to the Timorians and Goatians. Tell them I didn't have enough room for them.