In the above Image on the left is a portrait of Vasco Da Gama, one of the greatest explorers of all time and representing Portugal's golden age, when they were a great power. Where as on the right is a picture of a women homeless, jobless and drowned in deep poverty, representing the Portugal today. Lets now explore how a great nation has fallen from such grace and what it has become in the present world. Perhaps one the first developed nations (like Greece) to be destroyed by capitalism. It was not a much of a surprise that the country did not had any immediate effect on it after the second world war. Since the Estado Novo regime led by Salazar was well rooted in the country. I think the historians usually do not highlight this much but the Indian invasion of Goa was the turning point in Portugal's history as it led to the Portuguese colonial wars and later the "Carnation Revaluation". Impact of Goa's Invasion After 1961 when India invaded Goa, libera...
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