Radu_Magus
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Pangur Bán;11410965 said:Using size of territory claimed in Amazonia to make Portugal a top empire is like making any nation today a top empire for claiming the territory of Mars or the Moon.
That's a very ignorant remark, especially considering what I said before. Go read about the Portuguese Empire in Wikipedia, maybe you'll learn something.
I quote the first paragraph:
"The Portuguese Empire (Portuguese: Império Português), also known as the Portuguese Overseas Empire (Ultramar Português) or the Portuguese Colonial Empire (Império Colonial Português), was the first global empire in history.[1][2][3] In addition, it was the longest-lived of the modern European colonial empires, spanning almost six centuries, from the capture of Ceuta in 1415 to the handover of Macau in 1999 or the grant of sovereignty to East Timor in 2002. The empire spread throughout a vast number of territories that are now part of 53 different sovereign states."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_empire
The map of the Empire is also very interesting.