Comments by "黑龍 - Hắc Long" (@-haclong2366) on "History Summarized: The Portuguese Empire" video.

  1. Reducing the other Kingdoms of the Iberian peninsula to "would be Spain" is severely dishonest, Portugal was no different from the other Spanish Kingdoms other than the fact that it had a different monarch, the Crowns of Arágon and Castile remained separate until the Bourbons took over and "Spain" wasn't even a country until the Bourbons. Castile, Aragon, Navarre, Franch-Comté, and the Netherlands were all separate Spanish domains like the Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves was. If Catalonia would become an independent country today we'll see people like y'all completely re-writing Spanish history to play the Crown of Arágon as something separate of Castile (as it should be) while still downplaying the different legal and financial systems of the other Spanish crowns. The only reason why we treat Portuguese history different today is because it's an independent country today, if it became Spanish today people would re-write history to switch the narrative too, downplaying some points while exaggerating others for the sake of modern "national identities".
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