Was Portugal a world power any time in history?

A SHORT HISTORY OF PORTUGAL. By Tim Lambert. ANCIENT PORTUGAL. Human beings have lived in Portugal since about 30,000 BC when the world was in the grip of an ice age. The first Portuguese were hunters and fishermen. They also gathered plants for food. They wore leather clothes and they made stone tools. In about 5,000 BC farming was introduced to Portugal. read more

The History of Portugal online; Birmingham, David. A Concise History of Portugal (Cambridge, 1993) online free; Correia, Sílvia & Helena Pinto Janeiro. "War Culture in the First World War: on the Portuguese Participation," E-Journal of Portuguese history (2013) 11#2 Five articles on Portugal in the First World War; Derrick, Michael. read more