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		Portugese arrange the marriage between Darmapala and a Kandyan bride who was refused to Rajasinghe previuosly, foolish Rajasighe reacts as expected by the Portugese by attacking Kandy.
		Portugese will control trade of pearl fisheries, elephants, and free access to east and west coasts of India.Tamil christian community in Jaffna is their strong base support.
		As recorded by Portugese journalists themselves, One soldier killed a Sinhalese father in front of his wife and the children, and ate his flesh as the family memebers fainted in disbelief.
	www.spur.asn.au /Portugese.htm (5335 words)

	Emperor Libne Dingel (Wanag Seged)
		The Empress, troubled by the increasing influence of the Ottomans among the Islamic subjects of the Empire, decided that Portugal might prove to be a valuable ally against the Turks.
		The Christian Empire of Ethiopia was on the verge of being utterly distroyed at the hand of a Moslem prince, and the Heir of the House of Solomon was pleading for help.
		His Empire was being crushed by a Moslem leader who had swept into the Christan highlands and was systematically erasing every trace of the Christian faith that he could find.
	www.angelfire.com /ny/ethiocrown/Libne.html (4628 words)

	Ashland Daily Tidings :: Online Newspaper Edition - Your Community News Source Since 1876.
		Portugese sailors planted their flag around the globe.
		The Portugese Embassy provided a wealth of data on their national anthem for this column.
		Portugese independence dates back to 1385, when King John I rebelled against the Moors who held the Iberian Peninsula.
	www.dailytidings.com /2005/1005/100505c1.shtml (568 words)

	Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal was the major economic, political, and cultural power, its empire stretching from Brazil to the Indies.
		On 25 July 1415, the Portuguese Empire began when a Portuguese fleet led by King John I departed to besiege and conquer Ceuta in North Africa, a rich Islamic trade centre.
		An explicit instance of this absorption and adaptation of previous culture is seen in the countless festivals to pagan local and Roman deities which were transformed into festivals to Christian saints; only some pagan festivals have changed little over 2,000 years, due the religious passion of the Middle Ages and the inquisition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Portugal (8873 words)

	Portuguese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It began to diverge from other Romance languages after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the barbarian invasions in the 5th century, and started to be used in written documents around the 9th century.
		Strabo, a 1st century Greek geographer, remarks in his Geographia "encyclopedia": "they have adopted the Roman customs, and they no longer remember their own language." The language was spread by arriving Roman soldiers, settlers and merchants, who built Roman cities mostly near the settlements of previous civilizations.
		Between 409 A.D. and 711, as the Roman Empire collapsed in Western Europe, the Iberian Peninsula was conquered by Germanic peoples (Migration Period).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Portuguese_language (4410 words)

	Europeans in India
		The Portugese took over the Indian state of Goa and continued to hold it as their main trading post.
		Portugese merchants were also intrigued by Indian fabrics that were not produced in Europe.
		At the same time, the Moghul empire was falling apart because of corruption and bad organization.
	greetingindia.tripod.com /colonial.html (649 words)

	The Aerican Empire
		The Portugese version was sent to the Aerican Cultural Institute, and has prompted moving forward the schedule for the opening of the Aerican Museum.
		The ensuing discussion did not, in the end, draw the Empire into it, and in fact Minister Glark was approached by representatives of the Republic of Orange for diplomatic relations soon after.
		The Aerican Empire is currently planning to abstain on the upcomming votes in the LoSS on the issues presented by both sides of the argument, in light of the lack of concrete evidence able to be put forth by participants.
	www.aericanempire.com /news14.html (1003 words)

	The Vijaynagar Empire
		Foundation of Vijaynagar empire is certainly the most significant event in the history of medieval India.
		History of Vijaynagar empire is truly an unbroken era of bloody wars with Bahamani and other Muslim rulers.
		The coins of Vijaynagar empire were very popular and were used as prototype even after its decline.
	www.geocities.com /akhandbharat1947/Vijaynagar.html (992 words)

	The Anglo-Dutch Empire - Alternate History Discussion Board
		The Portugese invention of a radio transmitter she left to the Admiralty but Helmut Deiter, the eccentric inventor of the aeroplane was repeatedly feted by her on her visits to Durban.
		They were part of the Empire and chose to reject it and furthermore they subject many of their own citizens to oppression of a scale undreamt of in the Empire.
		The people of the Empire are a lot closer to early 20th-C England than they are now with the caveat that nationalism towards a country or race is replaced by "transnationalism" towards the Empire as a whole.
	www.alternatehistory.com /discussion/showthread.php?t=26663 (14873 words)

	Political Safavid Empire
		In the empire the ruler (shah) was semi-divine (2) and was thought to have direct succession from the prophet Muhammad.
		The Safavid empire was soon finished during the reign of Shah Abbas I. He moved the capital to Isfahan and it became an architectural masterpiece Abbas I was known as the Great because he had such a common touch: he interacted with the commo folk and wore simple clothes.
		After his death, much territory was lost from the empire due to the pressure from the Ottoman and Mughal empires.
	sun.menloschool.org /~sportman/westernstudies/first/1718/2000/eblock/safavid/politics.html (634 words)

	Founding Fathers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Empires that these historians talk about were almost exclusively Roman Catholic EMpires: The Portugese Empire was RCC, the Spanish Empire was RCC, The French Empire (short lived) was RCC.
		Empire share one of TWO Characteristics: They are either Roman Catholic or they are Secular.
		It is a real disservice to life, to history, to those who died and to those who suffered, to imply that ALL Christians today should somehow be equated as being part of the RCC or as being implicated in the guilt of the RCC.
	www.exorthodoxforchrist.com /founding_fathers.htm (1999 words)

	World History for Dummies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Pizzarro took the Roman Catholic priests with him to justify genocide of the Incas' empire.
		Together they stole the Incas' gold, raped the women and children, and then, if the Incas wouldn't convert to the Spanish version of Christianity, they were slaughtered mercilessly.
		The Treaty of Versailles (footnote 3) punished Germany for its arrogance, rearranged all the empires, and created conditions for the emergence of new ones.
	hypocrisytoday.com /worldhistory.html (338 words)

	450 Years of Colonialism
		In order to stop Portugese advance into Sitawaka, Mayadunne agrees to give the heads of the leader of Malabar troops and the other good miliatry commanders to Portugeese who abandone their advance and return to Colombo.
		Mughal empire set one of the finest examples of religious and cultural tolerance, which is the basis for policies of India today
		The Portugese led by captain Diego De Mello, who occupied and destroyed Kandy is surrounded and killed.
	www.spur.asn.au /450_years_of_colonialism_Part_3.htm (4369 words)

	[1.0] Origins Of Empire
		During the previous century, Spain had created a global empire in North and South America and the Phillipines, rivalled only by the Portugese empire, with its vast possessions in Brazil and global network of trading posts.
		Even the Dutch trading empire overshadowed English overseas efforts during the 17th century, which were limited to a handful of coastal colonies in North America and a few probes into African states.
		Although it has been said that Britain acquired an empire "in a fit of absence of mind", that was only true in the sense that it hadn't been done as part of an overall long-term plan of conquest.
	www.vectorsite.net /xrempire_01.html (8045 words)

	Brasil 500
		On 22 of April 1500, the portugese fleet commandor Pedro Alvares Cabral haslanded on Brasilian shores.
		Portugese found a native tree that wood is amber, in Portugese - brasa, like colour.
		The king of Prtugal, Pedro II fled Portugal, after French invaded it in 1808, to Brasil and Rio de Janerio was the capital city of Portugese Empire, not Lisbon, until 7th of September 1822, when Pedro II gave Brasil independence from Portugal.
	members.fortunecity.com /brazil500/main1.htm (142 words)

	The Hindu : Opinion / News Analysis : A gene that travelled from India with the Portugese
		IN THE 15th Century, Vasco da Gama arrived in what is today Kozhikode in northern Kerala and soon the Portugese established a considerable presence all along the west coast of India.
		The origins of this haplotype was traced to the Azores, the islands in the Atlantic Ocean that the Portugese used as a stopping point for ships travelling to and from their far-flung empire, and to Portugal itself.
		In addition, the Portugese were impressed by the seamanship of people of the Konkan coast and employed them as sailors.
	www.hindu.com /2005/04/25/stories/2005042505911100.htm (549 words)

	Portuguese language
		The language was spread worldwide in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as Portugal created the first and the longest lived modern-world colonial and commercial empire (1415–1975), spanning from Brazil in the Americas to Macau in China.
		It started to be used in written documents around the 9th century, and by the 15th century it had become a mature language with a rich literature.
		Between 409 A.D. and 711, as the Roman Empire was collapsing, the Iberian Peninsula was invaded by peoples of Germanic origin, known by the Romans as Barbarians.
	portuguese-language.ask.dyndns.dk (3901 words)

	Fortnightly Club of Redlands
		The Portugese were intent on seizing control of the spice trade and that meant the siege and capture of Malacca.
		Eventually, the sultan did send word, adding that all cloves would be sent west via the Portugese and requesting that the latter send engineers to help with the construction of additional forts needed in the ongoing wars with Tidore, only a mile away across the sparkling waters.
		Greed overcame the anger his superiors felt toward Serrao, the Portugese established trading stations on Temate where their renegade soldier was now confidant to the sultan and overlord of the island, the first European colonial outpost in the exotic East.
	www.redlandsfortnightly.org /papers/Moersch01.htm (6990 words)

	Southeast Asian History-Arrival of the Portugese
		By supporting the moderate sultanates in their quarrels with the religious extremists (Acheh and Demak), Malacca was able to keep all of Indonesia from attacking it at once.
		Portugal itself, with a population of 1.5 million, never seemed to have enough manpower to manage everything it had claimed in Africa, Asia and Brazil; often other Europeans like Italians, English and Dutch had to be hired to fill all the crew positions on Portuguese ships.
		Portugal suffered a blow from which it never recovered in 1578, when its king was killed in an invasion of Morocco; Spain's King Philip II promptly claimed the Portuguese crown for himself.
	www.guidetothailand.com /thailand-history/portugese.htm (904 words)

	Military Leaders. - History Forum
		The criteria you should consider when deciding are: Troop strength, strength of enemy, size of empire, their success in battle, their impact on history.
		Suleiman the Magnificent- Ottoman Turk, expanded the empire in North Africam Hungary and to the gates of Vienna in 1529.
		well considering that the mongol empire was the third greatest empire (in landmass) that ever existed.
	www.simaqianstudio.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=2910 (1378 words)

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		By the 1430’s, the Portugese were sailing up and down the west African coast - setting up trading stations, and trying to find something to trade.
		These Arab merchants weren't surprised that the Portugese had managed to go around Africa - they had suspected it was possible, but didn't think it was worth the trouble.
		The Incan empire was in South America - centered in the Andes mountains of Peru.
	www.luc.edu /faculty/ldossey/explorationapril10.htm (4762 words)

	THIS TECHNOLOGY CREATED EMPIRES - (Lessons From The Future vol 7)
		From these shores of the Iberian peninsula, great explorers sailed into unknown territories, building up in less than one century a Portugese Empire that stretched from Angola, Mozambique and half a dozen smaller areas in Africa to Goa in India, Macau in China and half a dozen other locations inbetween.
		Their travels brought them slaves, lumber and spices, agricultural and mineral resources from Africa, fabrics and other treasures that had been transported overland along the Silk Road from China to India.
		The astrolabe, forerunner of the sextant, used by those earlier mariners to calculate their latitude by measuring the altitude, at high noon, of the sun.
	www.drtomorrow.com /lessons/lessons7/02.html (452 words)

	British Empire: The Map Room: Asia: India
		The Portugese were actually the first European power to come into contact with India when Vasco de Gama sailed into Calicut in 1498.
		The Treaty of Tordesillas specifically stated that Portugese and Spanish monopolies were only in effect south of the Cape Verde Islands.
		This was partly due to the residual influence of Portugese Jesuit advisers who sought to frustrate Protestant England's attempts at making inroads into this part of the world.
	www.britishempire.co.uk /maproom/india.htm (4326 words)

	Highlights of Rome - Engineering an Empire at All Info About the Family Screen Scene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Rome's leadership often fell into incompetent hands of tyrants who seized by power through the murder of their enemies, oppression of their citizens, and the destruction of Rome by burning it to the ground.
		"Rome: Engineering an Empire" chronicles the history of the Roman Empire from the reign of Ceasar in 44 B.C. to its fall in 537 A.D. Viewers will see the advanced architecture, technology, and engineering feats, some of which were lost during the Dark Ages.
		Historians’ ideas on the fall of Rome, ranging from theories that the population was subject to large-scale lead poisoning to the notion that the empire simply grew too big and complex to be centrally governed anymore.
	familyscreenscene.allinfoabout.com /documentary/rome_engineering.html (777 words)

	Goa History;Pre-Portuguese
		With Portugal's command of the seas and its supremacy over the Arabs, Goa became the jewel of its eastern empire.
		By the end of the 16th century, Goa had already reached its peak and was referred to as "Golden Goa".
		Having survived two naval assaults by the Dutch in 1603 and 1640, Goa was almost over run by the Marathas in 1683, but was then saved by the presence of a strong Mughal force that was planning to attack the Marathas in an other unrelated battle.
	www.goacom.com /culture/history/history2.html (639 words)

	History of LATIN AMERICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The empire proves to be short-lived (losing the support of the army, the emperor is forced to abdicate in 1823).
		With the independence in 1821 of Mexico and Guatemala, along with similar proclamations in Peru in this same year and in Gran Colombia two years earlier, the whole of the Spanish empire in continental Latin America has declared for liberty.
		Brazil follows suit in 1822, ending the Portugese empire in the American continent.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=3468&HistoryID=aa87 (1525 words)

	The Route To Active Lifestyle - Goa, and the Blue Mountains: Or, Six Months of Sick Leave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		He describes India in all manner of ways of describing a place including history of its cities and Goa's history is quite ripe with meaning for Burton as it tells the story of why the Portugese empire fell..., a tale which Burton feels has a lesson for the English.
		That he was an expert linguist helps and that he had an appetite, insatiable apparently, for all kinds of experience makes his book a kind of interdisciplinary collection of datas, some more significant than others but the effect is that he experienced a place in every way imaginable.
		If there were more like him the empire would have better understood the country it was ruling over and so more effectively ruled it, however, most Englishman felt it best to erect and enforce an invisible boundary between himself and the cultures of India.
	www.activeroute.com /index.php/trade/productinfo/ASIN/1589760387 (1027 words)

	Romance Languages
		The Roman Empire once occupied most of Western Europe.
		As Latin-speaking soldiers and administrators settled down over the first centuries of the common era, their language slowly changed, but in different ways in different parts of the empire.
		Some of these diverging dialects became the languages of separate nations: but modern-day French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian remain recognizable branches of the same tree, which is called Romance.
	jclcds.tripod.com /romance.html (199 words)

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