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My favorite is the Portugese empire because nobody remembers it even though they were the ones who first discovered fucking Australia and began exploring the world and colonizing the shit out of remote lands almost a century before any other European power.
It perished in a very rare and gruesome natural disaster. A tsunami blew the fuck out of Lisboa and then it was set ablaze afterwards, leaving nothing but ashes of what was their capital.
>discovered Australia
>inb4 "those were the Dutch!"
Old news. They weren't.
