What is Portuguese Empire?
[[File: Portugal Império total.png|thumb|250px|The Portuguese Empire and overseas interests]] The '''Portuguese Empire''' ([[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]: ''Império Português'') was the first [[global]] [[empire]] in history.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The First Global Empire {{!}} History Today|url=https://www.historytoday.com/archive/first-global-empire|access-date=2020-10-05|website=www.historytoday.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=First global empire|url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/first-global-empire|access-date=2020-10-05|website=Guinness World Records|language=en-GB}}</ref> It spread from [[South America]] to [[Africa]], [[India]] and [[South East Asia]]. It began with the [[Portugal|Portuguese]] [[exploration]] of the [[world]] during the [[15th century]] and it lasted longer than all the other modern [[Europe]]an empires. It lasted 486 years, longer than the [[Spanish Empire|Spanish]], [[British Empire|British]], and [[French colonial empire|French]] Empires. The Portuguese Empire had trade with the following areas *[[Goa]], [[Malacca]] and [[Southeast Asia]] *[[China]] and [[Japan]] *[[Spice Islands]] ([[Moluccas]]) and the [[Treaty of Zaragoza]] *[[South Asia]], [[Persian Gulf]] and [[Red Sea]] *[[Sub-Saharan Africa]] The 1890 British Ultimatum was an ultimatum by the British government that was delivered on 11 January 1890 to Portugal. The ultimatum forced the retreat of Portuguese military forces from areas in Africa that had been claimed by the Portuguese but were occupied by the British. == Fall == The Portuguese Empire, like the [[British Empire|British]], [[French colonial empire|French]] and [[German Empire|German]] Empires, was fatally damaged by the two [[World war|world wars]] in the 20th century. The [[Europe|European]] powers were pressured by the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[United States]] and by independence movements inside the colonial territories. By the end of the 20th century, all of those colonial empires had been history. The rise of Soviet influence in the