Portuguese colonization of the Americas [faction overview]

Brasil






Description

  Portugal was the leading country in the European exploration of the world in the 15th century. The Treaty of Tordesillas divided the Earth, outside Europe, in 1494 into Spanish and Portuguese global territorial hemispheres for exclusive conquest and colonization. Portuguese sailors were at the vanguard of European overseas exploration, discovering and mapping the coasts of Africa, Asia and Brazil, in what become known as the Age of Discovery. Methodical expeditions started in 1419 along West Africa's coast under the sponsorship of prince Henry the Navigator, with Bartolomeu Dias reaching the Cape of Good Hope and entering the Indian Ocean in 1488. Ten years later, Vasco da Gama led the first fleet around Africa to India, arriving in Calicut and starting a maritime route from Portugal to India. Later, Pedro Álvares Cabral landed on April 22, 1500 in what is today Porto Seguro, Brazil.


Summary

Population: 5270
Army: 1054
Navy: 3 Caravels
Provinces: 3 total
Resources: Crops


Provinces

Espírito Santo - 1757 people
Porto Seguro - 1757 people
Bahia - 1756 people


Garrisoned units

Espírito Santo - 351
Porto Seguro - 352
Bahia - 351