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    having to import wheat from north Africa. After the 13831385 Crisis—combining a succession crisis, war with Castile, and Lisbon plagued by famine and...
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  • John I, the Portuguese defeated the Castilians in a war over the throne (1385) and established a political alliance with England (by the Treaty of Windsor...
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    the ouvidores. In 1580, King Philip II of Spain invaded Portugal after a crisis of succession brought about by King Sebastian of Portugal's death during...
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