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  2. Colonial Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Colonial Brazil (Portuguese: Brasil Colonial) comprises the period from 1500, with the arrival of the Portuguese, until 1815, when Brazil was elevated to a kingdom in ...

  3. Genocide of Indigenous peoples in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    In 1952, Brazil ratified the genocide convention and incorporated into their penal laws article II of the convention. [27] While the statute was being drafted, Brazil argued against the inclusion of cultural genocide, claiming that some minority groups may use it to oppose the "normal assimilation" which occurs in a new country. [28]

  4. Dutch invasions of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Olinda, then the richest city in colonial Brazil, was sacked and destroyed by the Dutch, who chose Recife as the capital of New Holland. Nicolaes Visscher's map shows the siege of Olinda and Recife in 1630. [1] The Dutch invasions in Brazil, ordered by the Dutch West India Company (WIC), occurred during the 17th century. [2]

  5. History of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Myscofski, Carole A. Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches: Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500–1822 (University of Texas Press; 2013) 308 pages; a study of women's religious lives in colonial Brazil & examines the gender ideals upheld by Jesuit missionaries, church officials, and Portuguese inquisitors.

  6. French invasions in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    French invasions in Brazil date back to the earliest days of Portuguese colonization up until the end of the 19th century. [ 1 ] The attacks, initially as part of Francis I of France's challenge to the Treaty of Tordesillas , encouraged the practice of looting for the barter of brazilwood and supported the attempts to colonize the coast of Rio ...

  7. History of the Empire of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    The land now known as Brazil was claimed by the Portuguese for the first time on 23 April 1500 when the Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral landed on its coast. Permanent settlement by the Portuguese followed in 1534, and for the next 300 years they slowly expanded into the territory to the west until they had established nearly all of the frontiers which constitute modern Brazil's borders.

  8. Mocambo (settlement) - Wikipedia

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    The most common form of slave resistance in colonial Brazil was flight, and a characteristic problem of the Brazilian slave regime was the continual and widespread existence of fugitive communities called mocambos, ladeiras, magotes, or quilombos.

  9. German colonization in Rio Grande do Sul - Wikipedia

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    Half-timbered buildings in the Aldeia do Imigrante Park in Nova Petrópolis, a typical construction type of German colonial architecture.. The German colonization in Rio Grande do Sul was a large-scale and long-term project of the Brazilian government, motivated initially by the desire to populate the south of Brazil, ensuring the possession of the territory, threatened by Spanish neighbors.