Kasz216 said:
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Yeah, some of those very poor decisions were:
- Denying funds for Christopher Columbus when he first came to the Portuguese Kings before he went to the Castille Kingdom
- The Tordesillas treaty in which they let themselves be screwed by the Spanish, which already knew how much land the Americas really had
- The trade treaties with Antwerp and Amsterdam in the early 1600s, which made us dismantle almost all seafaring trading routes with Europe and American territories.
- Letting ourselves be invaded and annexed to Spain without giving a fight, which then costed us our entire navy fleet when Filipe III decided to try and invade England. Of the 139 boats used in that invading armada, 127 were portuguese....and all those 127 sank.
- Spending almost all the gold collected during the discovery era to create treaties with the French, just to have them invade us (Napoleon) and later with the British, just to have them forcefully divide our African territories in the late 1800s.
These were just some of the primary ones.
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