Brazil And Its Impact On America

Both countries have transplanted cultures: Portugal for Brazil and Great Britain for USA, but the process of colonization that started in Brazil differs from the process of colonization of the USA, for example. Europeans didn’t go to Brazil to live and develop the territory for their own benefit. Actually, they went there to explore its rich natural recourses and came back home with lots of money.

Brazil borders every nation except Chile and Ecuador. Brazil is divided into Brazilian Highlands, or plateau, in the South American River Basin in the North. Brazil has rainforests, rivers, grasslands, and beaches. Brazil has more people and land than any other place in South America. Over a third of Brazil is covered by the Amazon and it’s over 200 tributaries. There are many rivers in Brazil. One major river is the Amazon River and it’s actually the second largest river in the world. The Amazon River is anywhere between 6,259 km / 3,903 mi and 6,712 km/ 4,195 mi long. The Amazon River supplies 20 percent of all the water that the world’s rivers pour into the ocean. Brazil also has rainforests. The largest rainforest is located in Brazil itself and that is the Amazon Rainforest. It has more than 1.2 billion acres in size. In matter of fact the rainforest is located

Brazil with a population around 201,032,714, is the largest South America’s country. Brazil’s most important components of its GDP are service revenues, wide industry sector and its successful agriculture.

The Federative Republic of Brazil is the fifth largest country by geographical area in South America. Currently, “Brazil has a population of over 207 million making it the 5th largest country in the world”(IBGE, 2017). Brasilia is the capital, and Sao Paulo is the largest city in Brazil with population over 11 million people.

Brazil is a leading emerging economy in the world today. Other economies in this category include; Russia, India, South Africa and china excluding Hong Kong and Macau. There has been a real transformation in the Brazil economy in the 21st century. The country 's location is in Latin America and is one of the motivating economies in the world market. It has experienced rapid growth, price stability, and fiscal responsibility (Czinkota 2010).

Brazil, located in South America, is the fifth largest country for both for the land size and the population. With a country taking up almost half of a continent, the 200 million people only occupy about ten percent of the entire country. Twenty-two percent of the population is under the age of 15.9 There are three main cities; the first is the capital Brasilia, with a population of over two million. The other two cities are San Paulo and Rio de Janeiro; accounting for over 15 million of the people. Throughout Brazil, a majority of the population speaks Portuguese and are generally Christian-based, following the Catholic faith. The currency is called the Brazilian Real (BRL). The BRL is equivalent to about $0.3 United States dollar.

Brazil is a country located in the North-Eastern and Eastern section of South America. It is the fourth largest country in the world and fifth most populous, holding over 200 million people, which also accounts for one third of South America’s entire population. (The World Factbook: Brazil 2018) Because of its huge size, Brazil receives millions of tourists each year; which makes it important to understand how to evaluate Brazilian culture and their way of communication.

Brazil, also known as the Federative Republic of Brazil, is one of the largest countries in South America. Brazil is not only the largest country by land measures but also by population. Approximately 200,000,000 people live within Brazil’s borders. The capital of Brazil is Brasilia which holds 2,000,000 of the countries citizens. The official language of Brazil is Portuguese.

So, Brazil occupies about half of South America, meaning Brazil alone is larger than the contiguous United States of America (the original 48 states). Brazil is located south of the equator, it borders the Atlantic Ocean, and is the largest country in South America. Brazil occupies 3,287,557 square miles with 3,205,080 being land and 21,411 square miles being water. Brazil borders most South American countries. Brazil’s northern section is occupied by the Amazon Rain forest while the south is plains that consist of swamps and marshes. The coast runs along the east. There are also mountains including the Brazilian Highlands that run from the east to the north and the go west to the Amazon. The north is tropical while the south is more temperate.

Brazil was first colonized by the Portuguese in the year 1500. Thanks to the Treaty of Tordesillas, Portugal laid claim to the Atlantic coasts of the South American continent and subsequently colonized to the South and inward through Amazonian rainforest. Originally, the Portuguese profited from the extraction brazilwood and its red dye. During the colonization process, the Portuguese originally relied on labor from the indigenous peoples. Jesuit missions largely converted the indigenous to the Catholic faith. However, due to the effects of European diseases African slaves began to become the main source of labor. Eventually, the economy was dominated by the export of sugar from the 16th to the 19th centuries. When Napoleon invaded

Brasil is the biggest country in both South America and Latin America. Brasil is well known for its ingredients used in the food they make in all of their 27 states. The ingredients first used by native peoples in Brasil include cassava, guaraná, açaí palm, and tucupi. Brasil cuisines are heavily

Federative Republic of Brazil has an area of 8.5 million square-kilometers, which is slightly smaller than the US, and makes it the fifth largest country in the world (The World FactBook [WFB], 2015a). It has a population of about 204.3 million (WFB, 2015a). As the South America's largest economy, the gross domestic product (GDP) of Brazil is about $2.353 trillion and the GDP per capita is around $16,100 in 2014 (WFB, 2015a).

European colonialism changed the economy in Brazil drastically. The country went basically from hunters and gatherers to a major source of goods for exports do largely to the Portuguese. Portugal explored Brazil because of the European commercial expansion of the fifteen and sixteenth centuries. Portugal began in the fifteenth century to search for other routes to the sources of goods valued in European markets. At first the Portuguese did not find mineral riches in their American colony, but did not lose hope. The Portuguese had to defend the Brazil from European intruders, they did this by establishing a pioneer colonial enterprise. They began to produce sugar, and then in 1531 cattle began to arrive in Brazil, and developed quickly as an industry. The cattle developed to the needs of the sugar industry for transportation and food for the workers. (5)

Also, let’s hear some country facts and other stuff. Brazil has an astonishing population of 200.4 million as of 2013, there is probably way more now. That

Brazil was the only Latin American nation to achieve independence without conflict or violence. During the 19th century, the Portuguese Royal family fled to Brazil from the anticipated invasion of Napoleon in Portugal. A few years later after the defeat of Napoleon, Dom João VI returned to Portugal but Prince Pedro (his) son, stayed in Brazil. When the Royal family wanted Brazil as a colony again, Pedro and the Brazilian people, disgusted by this, declared independence; Dom João VI being his father didn’t declare war on his son. So there was no bloodshed involved and Prince Pedro married an Austrian princess, allowing European immigrants to settle in