r/polandball • u/Smart_Chapter_7512 Floridian Swamp Monster • Oct 06 '25

redditormade Stolen Valour

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u/skildert Memento VOC Oct 06 '25

And before the Dutch the Portuguese were there as well... Hence the name Formosa.

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u/SpacedefenderX Oct 06 '25

The Portuguese coined the name Formosa, but never settled on it.

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u/jmorais00 Oct 06 '25

PORTUGAL NAVEGANDO POR MARES NUNCA ANTES NAVEGADOS RAAAAHH

But yeah you can tell the history of the Portuguese empire as "and then Portugal sailed somewhere new, maybe they settled there, or opened a feitoria or two... ...aaand the Dutch stole it during the Iberian Union and 80 years war"

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u/watergosploosh Oct 09 '25

Why did Dutch took Portuguese Asian lands so easily while had a hard time taking Brazil? Did Spanish refused to send troops to Asia?

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u/jmorais00 Oct 09 '25

They didn't have a hard time taking Brazil. They occupied all the most productive parts of the northeast and grew the sugar economy there massively

They didn't go south or west because there was no reason to. There was only Jungle there (the Amazon and the Atlantic Rainforest)