How did the Portuguese maintain control of their vast empire without a vast army or navy?

from my own personal expirence food stamps has alot this makes it eaiser so we can affod bills and so we can life a better lifestyle not needing to worry about paying actual money to buy food since most people spend 100-300 dollars a month on food so this alot so we can afford other bills and other stuff we need

b. martin luther king jr. wrote and spoke "i have a dream"

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i know this 100 percent is correct   b. is the best one. < 3