Why did Spain and Portugal not invade India

Spain and Portugal were early colonial powers, from the discovery of the New World in Christopher Columbus to the Anglo-Spanish naval battles, both of which were firmly in the grip of the world's most powerful colonial suzerainty.

Later, with the expansion of the partition of South America, more and more stakeholders were involved, and the Netherlands began to become stronger, and in the middle of the colony, the Netherlands gradually surpassed the two countries of Spain and Portugal.

At that time, the Spanish and Portuguese forces gradually moved south, mainly in what is now Latin America, while the Netherlands occupied North America.

Britain was still weak at the time, and Elizabeth often sent his men to rob the loaded Spanish cargo ships. And the pirates at the head are one named Hawkins and the other is called Drake.

Later, Spain was overwhelmed and absolutely dispatched an invincible team to crusade against Britain, but how did they know that England was not so easy to conquer, since Hasting, more than ten centuries, England has not been conquered, Hitler can't do it, and the so-called Armada can't do it.

The result is predictable, Elizabeth gave everything she had, even the fishing boats went up, Hawkins and Drake as commanders had a lot of combat experience, and the Spanish Armada finally sank in the English Channel, dead and wounded.

From then on, Britain became famous in World War I, eventually surpassing the Netherlands and dominating the world in the latter part of the colonial period.

In the years that followed, Britain was the first on the sea, and the sun never set on the vastness of its colonies.

And Portugal had been defeated by Spain before the Anglo-Spanish naval war, which can be said to be in a state of collapse, and it is fortunate to be able to guarantee its power in South America, and there is no idea of expansion.

Moreover, the colonization of Asia was a product of the late colonization, and it is not surprising that Spain is not seen.

Because they were provoked to occupy it, Spain and Portugal they are mainly on the European and American side!

Actually, the question is better formulated in the form of why Portugal did not join Spain in history.

If the reason is found from the perspective of stupid Spain, then the analysis results are nothing more than that Spain actually only looks quite big, but it cannot forcibly occupy Portugal, or Spain is actually weak, and Portugal is not strong but still has allies. If we look at the problem from the Portuguese point of view, we can find more in-depth conclusions.

Before going into details, let's start with the main point: the history of Portuguese diplomacy can be seen as a process of oscillating between Britain and Spain. Portugal initially sought a balance between England and Spain.

It was not until 1580 that it decided to take refuge in Spain, but the crises of the next half century led to its decision to break away from the Spanish god in 1640 and eventually gradually fall to England. After the break between Portugal and Britain in 1890, Portugal began to seek a new balance in its diplomacy.

First, after Portugal became independent, he hugged the pope's thigh, and then directly made a Portuguese kingdom de jure alone. In other words, it was difficult for the king of Spain to find a reasonable reason to claim the king of Portugal. (Unless it's the kind of union that was sent to the door in 1580).

Second, Spain is also like a troubled country in the United Movement. The jurisprudence of the Kingdom of Spain was created only in the nineteenth century. Aragon and Castille played their own game, and in 1640 the gang of people in Catalonia did not want to pay taxes and created a Spanish rebellion.

Third, in 1640, Portugal became independent and had English thighs, and what could the Spanish army do if it couldn't defeat the Anglo-Portuguese alliance, and I was also desperate.

Incidentally, the Anglo-Portuguese alliance signed in 1373 is said to be in force until now. Spain has nothing to do with Britain even if it is in the era of the ** sidelines. It's easy to fight Portugal, it's hard to fight England.

Fourth, what was Spain's most glorious sixteenth century doing? Fight the Dutch Protestants, fight the English Protestants, participate in the French religious civil war, and fight the Ottoman pagans. There were daily wars with all of Europe, and in fact Spain did unite Portugal in 1580.

Then, Spain, which had been fighting for a century, completely got rid of it after the Thirty Years' War and entered the stage of being beaten by France on a daily basis. After changing to the Bourbon royal family, the whole country was full of brains, and Britain in the 18th century was not something that Spain could afford to provoke, at least France had to be added, and the Netherlands had a group of colonial people who wanted to rebel.

Spain takes the lead against Portugal?

Fifth, after the Napoleonic Wars, it was basically impossible to directly eat a European country the size of Portugal, not to mention Britain, without the cancer of nationalism.

But Portugal has long since established its own identity.

The revolt of the Indian people, the corruption of the Portuguese colonizers themselves, the southward movement of the Mughal army, and the successive arrival of the Dutch, French and British, under the influence of various factors, the Portuguese gradually lost their advantage in India and the East for more than a hundred years. At the beginning of the 17th century, Portuguese colonies in India were plundered by the Dutch, and by the 40s, only Goa, Dammam and Diu remained.

Portugal became an independent kingdom after breaking away from Spain in 1143, and by the 15th and 16th centuries it played an important role in the Age of Discovery, establishing a large number of colonies in Asia and elsewhere.