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	World InfoZone - Brazil Information - Page 1
		The flora and fauna of Brazil are as diverse as its geography.
		Brazil has the highest number of species of primates, amphibians and plants in the world, and is in the top five in the world for number of birds and reptile species.
		The population of Brazil was 188,078,227 in 2006.
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		Brazil is a unified Portuguese America that did not split in the wake of independence as Spanish America did.
		Brazil began with a sugar plantation economy, which implied massive "forced immigration" from Africa to replace a vanishing indigenous workforce.
		Colonial Brazil was separated from colonial Spanish America by the vastness of the continent's interior spaces.
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	Brazil
		Brazil's fate was in the hands of a few people concentrated in the capital who spread false stories and undermined discipline in the army and police.
		Brazil took on the appearance of a federation of local pátrias (autonomous centers of regional power) with loose allegiance to the Rio de Janeiro government, whose function was to defend them from external attack and to maintain order and balance among them.
		In Brazil the war contributed to the growth of manufacturing, to the professionalization of the armed forces and their concentration in Rio Grande do Sul, to the building of roads and the settling of European immigrants in the southern provinces, and to the increased power of the central government.
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	Colonial Brazil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The discovery of Brazil was preceded by a series of treaties between the kings of Portugal and Castile, the last of them is the Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in 1494, creating the Tordesillas Meridian, that divided the world between those two kingdoms.
		Brazil was elevated to the condition of United Kingdom creating the Reino Unido de Portugal, Algarve e Brasil (English: The United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and the Algarve) (1815).
		Flag of Kingdom of Brazil in the The United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and the Algarve
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colonial_Brazil (1136 words)

	Brazil - MSN Encarta
		Brazil’s history can be divided into two major parts: the colonial period from the arrival of the first Portuguese explorers in 1500 until independence in 1822, and the national period since independence from Portugal.
		After Brazil broke away from Portuguese rule in the 1820s, members of the Portuguese royal family ruled as emperors until 1889, in the only sustained monarchy in the western hemisphere.
		He founded a permanent colonial capital on the coast of the captaincy of Bahia, calling the city Salvador (Portuguese for “the Savior”).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761554342_10/Brazil.html (1837 words)

	History of Brazil
		From the 16th to the 18th centuries, Brazil was a colony of Portugal, exploited mainly for brazilwood at first, and later for sugarcane agriculture.
		The Andes and the mountain ranges of northern Brazil created a rather sharp cultural boundary between the settled agrarian civilizations of the West coast of South America (which gave rise to urbanized city-states and the immense Inca Empire) and the semi-nomadic tribes of the East, who never developed written records or permanent monumental architecture.
		Brazil's most severe problem is arguably its highly unequal distribution of wealth and income, one of the most extreme in the world.
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/h/hi/history_of_brazil.html (2060 words)

	Braziliantravel Discount
		It embraces contrasting ecosystems such as the Amazon Forest and the Atlantic Forest with their incredibly luxuriant woodlands, the Cerrado (scrublands) and the Caatinga (arid lands) with their twisted trees and landscape that changes radically according to the seasons, the Pantanal (marshland) with its flood plains teeming with an amazingly rich chain of animal reproduction.
		Although it contains some of the most beautiful valleys and mountains in Brazil, many of which preserve luxuriant niches of the Atlantic Forest, the main distinguishing feature of the South-East is the splendour of the city of Rio de Janeiro and the cultural and economic life of the other capital cities.
		Brazil is served by the major airlines and its hotel network comprises national companies and some of the world's largest hotel chains.
	www.braziliantravel.com /hotel/About/brazil/index.htm (1039 words)

	Article-Colonial Brazil -Cambridge History of Latin America-
		Colonial Brazil is a selection of chapters from the Cambridge History of Latin America volumes 1 and 2 brought together to provide a continous history of the Portuguese Empire in Brazil from the beginning of the sixteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth centuries.
		The chapters cover early Portuguese settlement, political and economic structures, plantations and slavery, the gold rushes, the impact of colonial rule on Indian societies, imperial reorganization in the eighteenth century, and demographic and economic change during the final decades of the empire.
		The largest and most important country in Latin America, Brazil was the first to succumb to the military coups that struck that region in the 1960s and the early 1970s.
	www.minihttpserver.net /z_book/A_colonial_brazil_camb-0521349257.htm (587 words)

	Brazil The Colonial Era, 1500-1815 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
		The territory that comprises modern Brazil had a native population in the millions, divided among hundreds of tribes and language groups.
		Brazil was not to be a place where Europe's religious dissidents sought freedom of conscience.
		Rather, to paraphrase historian Caio Prado Júnior, the colonization of tropical Brazil would be "one vast commercial enterprise." Colonial Brazil's reason for being was to supply dyewood, sugar, tobacco, eventually gold and diamonds, cotton, coffee, and later rubber for the European and then world markets.
	www.workmall.com /wfb2001/brazil/brazil_history_the_colonial_era_1500_1815.html (1085 words)

	Brazil's history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brazil's history can be divided into two major parts: the colonial period from the arrival of the first Portuguese explorers in 1500 until independence in 1822, and the national period since independence from Portugal.
		Recognizing the importance of Brazil to the economic well-being of Portugal, Pombal tried to improve the efficiency of the Brazilian economy and administration and to lessen tensions between colonists and their Portuguese rulers.
		Brazil had imported half a million slaves in the 17th century to work on the sugar plantations of the Northeast.
	www.casadoalan.com /Brazils_history.html (9209 words)

	H-Net Review: Stuart McCook on Fruitless Trees: Portuguese Conservation and Brazil's Colonial Timber
		Although the fate of Brazil's forest was, in the end, similar to that of Europe's North American colonies, Miller argues that the key difference is that "comparatively few of Brazil's timbers were employed in the effective accumulation of colonial wealth and capital" (p.
		Miller's approach is valuable in placing Brazil in the context of the north Atlantic and he shows convincingly that forest policy and forest use in colonial Brazil were significantly different than in Europe and North America.
		Over the short term at least, the settlers of colonial Cuba were better able than the settlers of colonial Brazil to convert their "natural capital" into "social capital." By the eighteenth century, the island had a flourishing and diverse timber industry.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=29338976815525 (3074 words)

	00-020 (Colonial Brazil) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The history of Colonial Brazil, illustrated through a selection of significant printed works from the John Carter Brown Library’s collection, will be on display Sept.11 through Dec. 15, 2000.
		Portuguese nobleman Pedro Alvarez Cabral was en route to India on April 23, 1500, when, by accident or design, he landed on the coast of Brazil and claimed its territory for his motherland.
		Brazil achieved its independence from Portugal in 1822 and today occupies roughly half of the South American continent.
	www.brown.edu /Administration/News_Bureau/2000-01/00-020.html (345 words)

	Brazil Land for Sale
		Brazil is home to the largest rain forest on earth, the largest river on earth, and to "Carnival" which is like a super version of Mardi Gras.
		Brasília the federal district and capital of Brazil.
		Minas Gerais, the region is the financial centre of Brazil and its most industrialized part, responsible for some of the world's largest urban concentrations.
	www.brazil-land-sales.com /index.htm (1803 words)

	Brazil
		His analysis shows the problem as the result of the socioeconomic conditions in the northeast which have developed since colonial times, survived through several political mechanisms, and are apparently destined to continue.
		Fuelwood in Colonial Brazil: The Economic Consequences of Fuel Depletion for the Bahian Reconcavo, 1549-1820.
		Analyzes the problems of tropical deforestation by a comparative analysis of postwar rainforest policies in Brazil and Costa Rica and evaluates the impact of environmental destruction for short-term economic gain, utilizing Richard Rose's methodology for assessing long-range consequences from his Lesson-Drawing in Public Policy (1993).
	www.stanford.edu /group/LAEH/html/brazil.htm (2383 words)

	In Brazil, a colonial language finds new life - Americas - International Herald Tribune
		In its colonial heyday, lingua geral was spoken not just throughout the Amazon but as far south as the Paraná River basin, more than 3,000 kilometers, or 2,000 miles, from here.
		It lingered in the Amazon after Brazil gained independence in 1822, but was weakened by decades of migration of peasants from northeast Brazil to work on rubber and jute plantations and other commercial enterprises.
		The survival of Nheengatu here has been aided by the profusion of tongues in the region, which complicates communication among tribes; it is a long-held custom of some tribes to require members to marry outside their own language group.
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/08/28/news/brazil.php (1113 words)

	Brazil
		The history of Brazil is a study in colonial imperialism.
		One of Brazil's distinctive features has always been the existence of people who live within the boundaries of the country but outside the limits of the society and the controls of the state.
		Brazil Culture (art, music, and dance) is an eclectic mix reflective of its mixed population.
	daphne.palomar.edu /marguello_students/Summer_2003/lau/brazil.html (1242 words)

	Brazil Hotel, Brazil Hotels, bargain, discount, low cost, cheap pousadas, hostels & hotels in Brazil/Brasil - ...
		And Brazil is one of the destinations with greatest potential in this segment, since it has one of the world icons for ecology and biodiversity: the Amazon, located in the north of the country, with around 5.5 million square kilometers.
		The most interesting places to visit in Brazil includes Fernando de Noronha Island, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo (the two bustling megacities of the south-east), the more relaxed city of Salvador in the northeast, or the old colonial towns of Ouro Preto and Olinda.
		The most up-and-coming resort in Brazil is now the small friendly Praia de Pipa, in the NE of the country; serviced by international airports at Natal and Recife, this small town is popular with both Brazilians and foreign tourists.
	discount.cheap-brazil-hotel.com (796 words)

	religion and colonial Brazil
		The stage was thus set for slavery to spread to Brazil when Portuguese colonists settled there.
		In 1549, newly arrived Jesuit missionaries were alarmed to discover that much of Brazil's ork force was made up up illegally captured Africans.
		Brazil became heavily dependent on the Atlantic slave trade.
	www.nathanielturner.com /religionandcolonialbrazil.htm (699 words)

	Colonial Collection, Brazil Baroque, Brazilian Furniture, Santa Barbara CA
		Colonial Collection, Brazil Baroque, Brazilian Furniture, Santa Barbara CA Buoyant creativity and sensitivity to detail raises this “country” collection to Art.
		As a colorful, sometimes saucy expression of the eclecticism of Brazil’s culture, each piece is a masterful confluence of elements from various periods and styles.
		The Portuguese explorer Cabral made landfall in Brazil in 1500 and claimed it for the crown; Brazil remained a colony of Portugal for 300 years.
	www.brazilbaroque.com /colonial.htm (157 words)

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		In the capital of Pernambuco, art and culture permeate life and are reflected in the colonial architecture of the houses, churches and old forts.
		During the colonial period most of the sugar mills were concentrated in the North East region of Brazil, where in 1535, in the captaincy of Pernambuco, the town of Olinda was founded and quickly became a shop window for the accumulated wealth of the neighbouring sugar plantation owners.
		The name itself is said to have originated in the exclamation of the hereditary captain Duarte Coelho, on gazing at the magnificent vista which unfolded before him from the spot he had chosen for the foundation of the town.
	www.brazilparadise.com /recife.htm (806 words)

	Brazil Travel Guide - Travel to Brazil
		Brazil is the biggest country in South America.
		Brazil is very much a country of contrasts.
		The most visited places in Brazil includes Fernando de Noronha Island, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo (the two bustling megacities of the south-east), the more relaxed city of Salvador in the northeast, or the old colonial towns of Ouro Preto and Olinda.
	www.justbrazil.org (384 words)

	United States and Brazil: The Colonial Period / Brasil e Estados Unidos: O Período Colonial
		A flourishing "triangle trade" developed: slave labor imported from West Africa worked the sugar plantations in Brazil; sugar and sugar products were exported from Brazil to Europe; and the profits from the sugar were used for European manufactured goods with which to purchase more slaves in the African coastal slave markets.
		The coffee plant was introduced in Brazil as early as 1727, but only in the nineteenth century did it became economically significant.
		The economy of colonial Brazil depended upon slave labor.
	international.loc.gov /intldl/brhtml/br-1/br-1-3.html (1610 words)

	Brazil - The Colonial. Photos of Bahia, Sao Luis, Ouro Preto.
		Brazil's colonial capital and most important city for three
		Sao Luis, along the northern coast, has one of Brazil's best
		The suburb of Olinda has an historic core of colonial churches
	www.geocities.com /thomas_hobbs2/brazil/colonial.html (261 words)

	Brazilian History
		The Portuguese expelled them, and many of the Dutch settled in Brazil moved to a new colony on the island of Manhattan.
		Brazil is, by this way, connected to the New York City formation.
		Most of the economic power of Brazil is now centred in Sao Paulo, and some adjacent regions like the Minas Gerais state (capital: Belo Horizonte), and, in some extent, Rio de Janeiro.
	www.brazil-travel-guide.com /Brazil-History.html (1454 words)

	Colonial Brazil Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		These areas are now a sleepy back water that hides some of Brazil's history.
		Be it relaxation, scuba, art appreciation, connection to the past, or a break from the modern world, there is something for everyone here.
		Founded in the 17th century, Ouro Preto (Black Gold) was the focus of the gold rush and Brazil's golden age in the 18th century.
	www.brazilres.com /colonial.html (215 words)

	Brazil colonial history
		This is a brief study of Caminha's Letter to the King of Portugal and it is basically a description of the encounter between the conquerors and the native peoples, and their reactions.
		Bandeirantes Item from Travel Brazil about the Bandeirantes (bandeira is the Portuguese for "flag"; the bandeiras used to carry a flag to identify them), who led private expeditions which explored the interior lands of Brazil during the 17th and 18yth centuries
		Slavery in Brazil Palmares and Slave Resistance The Dutch in Brazil The Defeat of the Dutch
	www.casahistoria.net /Brazil.htm (1731 words)

	Colonial Brazil - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Colonial Brazil is a selection of chapters from the Cambridge History of Latin America volumes 1 and 2 brought together to provide a continuous history of the Portuguese Empire in Brazil from the beginning of the sixteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth centuries.
		The chapters cover early Portuguese settlement, political and economic structures, plantations and slavery, the gold rushes, the impact of colonial rule on Indian societies, imperial reorganization in the eighteenth century, and demographic and economic change during the final decades of the empire.
		Late colonial Brazil, 1750–1808 Dauril Alden; A note on literature and intellectual life Leslie Bethell; Bibliographical essays; Index.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521349257 (193 words)

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