Portugal was one of the top leading countries in the world, 1300s- 1700s they had more advanced knowledge of the world around them. Since they were constantly fighting with Spain, so then Portugal turned to the sea, after Prince Henry the Navigator established a school of navigation and sagres (Britannica School, Encyclopædia), in that time they had a huge overseas empire that became Europe's largest. The Portuguese were in the lead with trading from Brazil and they beat Spain and the Netherlands in taking over the nutmeg trade but unfortunately that went all down the drain, on November the 1, 1755 in the capital Lisbon (Robert Siegel).
The ground rumbled, building shook even five to seven story buildings, they all wobbled and toppled over …show more content…
Tens of thousands of people had died. The thing about the Lisbon earthquake is that, not only did the earth's plates that lie under the earth's crust slide against each other, it also caused a Atlantic Ocean tsunami (Robert Siegel). And about a half hour after the earthquake, the water was being pulled, where all the survivors were, but what was horrifying is that the portuguese people didn't know what was happening or what was going to happen, merchants who had heard about this occurrence were shouting at the families to run but the parents and children were too busy admiring the seafloor where what was happening this tsunami smashed into the Iberian Peninsula, and went up the Tagus river and hit the riverbank in Lisbon where thousands of families and survivors had gathered to stay safe because of the earthquake, pulling many into the Tagus and out into the Atlantic (Molesky). The tsunami barreled across the Atlantic, hit the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean, Newfoundland, Cuba, Bermuda and even crossed the equator and hit Northeastern Brazil, killing several people there (Robert
The ground rumbled, building shook even five to seven story buildings, they all wobbled and toppled over …show more content…
Tens of thousands of people had died. The thing about the Lisbon earthquake is that, not only did the earth's plates that lie under the earth's crust slide against each other, it also caused a Atlantic Ocean tsunami (Robert Siegel). And about a half hour after the earthquake, the water was being pulled, where all the survivors were, but what was horrifying is that the portuguese people didn't know what was happening or what was going to happen, merchants who had heard about this occurrence were shouting at the families to run but the parents and children were too busy admiring the seafloor where what was happening this tsunami smashed into the Iberian Peninsula, and went up the Tagus river and hit the riverbank in Lisbon where thousands of families and survivors had gathered to stay safe because of the earthquake, pulling many into the Tagus and out into the Atlantic (Molesky). The tsunami barreled across the Atlantic, hit the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean, Newfoundland, Cuba, Bermuda and even crossed the equator and hit Northeastern Brazil, killing several people there (Robert