1. Answering Yes/No Questions. In English, you could answer these questions simply by saying “yes” or “no”, but in Portuguese, responding with only sim yes or não.
2. These are the most common Portuguese question words: Quê?
3. Que (What)
4. Quem (Who)
5. Qual (Which)
6. Quanto (How much/many)
7. Onde (Where)
8. Como (How)

Portuguese is pretty much the same (and probably most other romance languages), but no inverted question marks. Chinese and Japanese don’t invert anything; they just add a question indicator word at the end.

Portugal was officially an autonomous state, but in actuality, the country was in a personal union with the Spanish crown from 1580 to 1640.

During the wars of the 18th century, which were often fought by the major powers to maintain the European balance of power, Spain and Portugal usually found themselves on opposite sides. In 1762, during the Seven Years’ War, Spain launched an unsuccessful invasion of Portugal.

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Napoleon’s ire was provoked because Portugal was Britain’s oldest ally in Europe, Britain was finding new opportunities for trade with Portugal’s colony in Brazil, the Royal Navy often used Lisbon’s port in its operations against France, and he wished to seize Portugal’s fleet.

The Carnation Revolution of April 1974 in Lisbon led to the hasty decolonization of Portuguese Africa and to the 1975 annexation of Portuguese Timor by Indonesia. Decolonization prompted the exodus of nearly all the Portuguese colonial settlers and of many mixed-race people from the colonies.

Portugal colonized parts of South America (Brazil, Colónia do Sacramento, Uruguay, Guanare, Venezuela), but also made some unsuccessful attempts to colonize North America (Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia in Canada).

Colonial Brazil (Portuguese: Brasil Colonial) comprises the period from 1500, with the arrival of the Portuguese, until 1815, when Brazil was elevated to a kingdom in union with Portugal as the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves.