Leading the ship is Prince Henry the Navigator and behind him are many other great Portuguese discoverers. The Monument to the Discoveries is made up of a group of sculptures that represent the prow of a caravel (a small sailing ship constructed by the Portuguese to explore the Atlantic Ocean). The tribute is located on the coast of Belém, near Lisbon, and is also very close to other important sights like Belém Tower and Jerónimos Monastery.
It was inaugurated in 1960, on the fifth centenary of one of the country’s great discoverers, Prince Henry the Navigator, who discovered the Azores, Madeira, and Cape Verde. This stunning monument was designed to commemorate the Age of Discoveries in Portugal. The perceived decadence of the Estado during much of its history is at odds with its longevity and has prompted longstanding debates about the nature of Portuguese power in Asia its reliance on trade, military might, and imperial ideas and its intertwinement with Asian polities and societies.The Padrão dos Descobrimentos (Monument to the Discoveries) stands 170 Ft (52 m) tall. Goa became a part of the Indian Union in 1961, and Macao integrated into the People’s Republic of China in 1999.
Despite significant losses to the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the English East India Company (EIC) during the 17th century, the Estado survived until the 20th century. The Estado reached its apex in the second half of the 16th century, drawing vast resources from trade around the Cape and within Asian and African waters, while investing increasingly in military and religious campaigns in a variety of regions from southeastern Africa to the Moluccas (Malukus) and Japan.
Portuguese trading posts ( feitorias), forts, and fortified towns across the region resulted from conquest or, more frequently, from negotiated agreements with local rulers, on whose cooperation the Portuguese generally relied. After some initial hesitations, the Portuguese Crown created a governorship for India in 1505, with a seat at Cochin (Kochi) later transferred to Goa, to oversee commercial, military, administrative, and other activities in an increasing number of possessions along the shores of East Africa and Maritime Asia. The origins of the Portuguese Estado da Índia-the sum of all Portuguese Crown possessions east of the Cape of Good Hope-can be traced back to the late 1400s, most importantly to the inaugural voyage of Vasco da Gama from Lisbon to Calicut (Kozhikode) in 1497–1498. Historiography/Historical Theory and Method Citizenship and National Identity/Nationalism
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