A History of Portugal

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Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• HISTORICAL SETTING
• ORIGINS OF PORTUGAL
  • Early Inhabitants
  • Phoenicians, Greeks, and Carthaginians
  • Romanization
  • Germanic Invasions
  • Muslim Domination
  • Christian Reconquest
• FORMATION OF THE MONARCHY
  • Afonso Henriques Becomes King
  • Territorial Enlargement
  • Settlement and Cultivation
  • Political and Social Organization
  • Control of the Royal Patrimony
  • Development of the Realm
• THE HOUSE OF AVIS
  • Wars with Castile
  • Anglo-Portuguese Alliance
  • Social Revolution
  • Intradynastic Struggle
  • Assertion of Royal Supremacy
• MARITIME EXPANSION
  • Early Voyages
  • Sea Route to India
  • Empire in Asia
  • Colonization of Brazil
  • Counter-Reformation and Overseas Evangelization
• IMPERIAL DECLINE
  • Dynastic Crisis
  • Iberian Union
  • Restoration
  • Development of Brazil
  • Absolutism
  • Peninsular Wars
• CONSTITUTIONALISM
  • Revolution of 1820
  • War of the Two Brothers
  • Moderate vs. Radical Liberals
  • Rotativismo
  • Portuguese Africa
• REPUBLICANISM
  • The First Republic
  • Military Dictatorship
  • The New State
  • The Social State