The first four empires were, according to Vieira, in order: the Assyro-Caldeans, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans.
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The Fifth Empire (Portuguese: Quinto Império) is a concept of a global Portuguese empire with spiritual and temporal power, set to take its place in a new era and based in the prophecy of the second chapter of the Book of Daniel and in the Book of Revelation, whose origins lay with António Vieira.
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First Empire - Ancient Greece, all knowledge and experience extracted from the ancient empires;
Ottoman Empire | Order of the British Empire | Russian Empire | Roman Empire | British Empire | Holy Roman Empire | German Empire | Byzantine Empire | Mughal Empire | Austrian Empire | First French Empire | Empire of Japan | Empire State Building | Vijayanagara Empire | Spanish Empire | Boardwalk Empire | Empire | Mongol Empire | Second French Empire | Order of the Indian Empire | Portuguese Empire | Achaemenid Empire | Parthian Empire | Maratha Empire | Western Roman Empire | Seleucid Empire | The Empire Strikes Back | Hackney Empire | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | The Cat Empire |
He had believed in the prophecies of a 16th-century shoemaker poet, Bandarra, dealing with the coming of a ruler who would inaugurate an epoch of unparalleled prosperity for the church and for Portugal, these new prosperous times were to be called the Quinto Império or "Fifth Empire" (also called "Sebastianism").