Notes+on+Brazil

=Brazil=




 * __Main Idea:__** Portugal demand for more power and trade and manufacturing, they decided to set and go explore for more land, thus created sugar plantations for now.


 * created their first plantation in the Americas
 * **Pedros Alvraes,** the leader of the expedition to India and stopped at Brail for a bit
 * Portuguese nobles were given a strip of land and hopin to develop it,
 * **Captaincies** combing broad and seemingly feudal powers with strong desires for commercial power and deveopment
 * Most of them lacked capital
 * Sugar plantations were established using Native American, Then African Slaves and needed to carry out colonization
 * First Jesuits missionaries arrived.
 * Strong settlements along teh coast, with Salvador and Rio De Janeiro
 * Roughly 150 plantations and growing
 * 100,000 people
 * 30,000 Europeans
 * 15,000 Slaves
 * The **Habsburg** kings ruled Portugal.
 * Large demand for machinery and Labor because of agriculture
 * 7,000 slaves imported each year
 * half their population
 * White planter became more aristocratic linked by marriage to merchants and to Portuguese bureaucratic, they dominated local institutions.
 * **Paulistas** were capturing Indians and searching for metals.
 * **Minas Gerias**- were gold strikes were found and gave a new boom to the Brazilian colony.
 * Created a bureaucratic structure that integrated with the imperial system
 * Portuguese Empire included colonies in Asia, Africa and Brazil.
 * Brazil did not use a **printing press**
 * Brazil seeked high education which was a big part of their intellectual life.
 * Brazil became less dependant and reliable for England
 * Dutch seized a portion of Brazil and controlled its sugar production.
 * **gold and diamonds** opened up for expansion of slavery
 * Exported sugar and Tobacco in Rio
 * The wealth of **Minas Gerias** was used to build churches and this helped the work of artisans, composers and architects.


 * //__Summary__//**

As **Pedro Alvares** took a little break and pit stop in Brazil, he then took a little intreast in in that country at first, but later on became a huge manufacturing planation with goods such as **Sugars and Tobacco** being exported throughout the world. With large demands for machinery begin run by Natives Americans And Slaves, being half their population running the plantations. With white families being aristocratic, they also ran local institutions according to local Portuguese bureaucratic powers.