Pedro Cabral of Portugal discovers Brazil
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Brazil was discovered by the Portuguese, who landed in April of 1500. Pedro Alvares Cabral commanded the ship that landed and found that there was a native population he described as primitive. Look here for more information: http://en.wiki...
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Brazil was discovered by accident when a Portuguese expedition to India, led by Pedro Alvares Cabral, swung too far westward in 1500. It remained virtually ignored by the Crown for twenty-five years because it lacked the rich trade cities found in Asia and it had no ready supplies of precious metals.
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The only item of value they discovered was the pau do brasil (brazil wood tree) from which they created red dye. Unlike the colonizing philosophy of the Spanish, the Portuguese in Brazil were much less focused at first on conquering, controlling, and developing the country.
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Brazil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Brazil (Portuguese: ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ) , is a country in South America. It is the fifth largest country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of So...
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History of Brazil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The History of Brazil (Brasil) begins with the arrival of the first indigenous peoples, over 8,000 years ago by crossing the Bering land bridge into Alaska and then entering the rest of North and Ce...
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In 1693 rich gold deposits were discovered in the region of present-day Minas Gerais. The resultant gold rush brought tens of thousands of Portuguese colonists to Brazil.
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A new strain of the H1N1 virus has been discovered in Brazil. Scientists from the Adolfo Lutz Bacteriological Institute in Sau Paulo discovered the new strain of the H1N1 virus in a 26-year-old patient on Tuesday, June 16.
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