Essay On European Imperialism In Brazil

In 1492, the world was forever changed when Columbus discovered the new world. This exciting news inspired hundreds of new explorers to come see what else the world has to offer. The explorers were Europeans who traveled the Atlantic ocean to conquer the Americas. They wanted to conquer the Americas for glory and gold. The Europeans wanted to make their country the best and they had already experienced brutal wars in Europe for the fame. They had experience, and the Americas did not scare them. The colonization process happened from a span of 1500-1600. The native populations who lived in the Americas had to suffer drastically, as they saw their home land get destroyed. The native populations of the New World suffered due to the purposeful

Brazil was colonized in 1500 where among other adventurers, Portuguese Pedro Alvares Cabral landed with his fleet in Porto Seguro. The colonizers met Tupinamba Indians, one of the many native groups in the continent. The main goal of the Portuguese was to monopolize the trade of pau-brasil, which is the red wood made for making dye and gave the country its name. The other goal was establishing settlements in the country. The Portuguese first collaborated in harvesting the trees but later tried to enslave the natives, and many fled the country or died because of exploitation and disease. Over three million people fled after Cabral’s arrival and then the Portuguese turned to Indian and African slaves.

The United States are so different compared to Brazil, when you talk about people, education, language etc. Despite the differences, we can observe

The Forbidden Lands challenges the common notions of “the frontier” in the lives of Indians, settlers, empires, and nations alike. Langfur offers a nuanced picture of the frontier in Minas Gerais, the hub of Brazil's eighteenth-century gold and diamond boom and addresses a myth of Brazilian historiography regarding the centrality of the bandeiras, bands of settlers, colonizers, slaves, mixed-race people, and even Indians, that “opened” up the interior and made Brazil into a continent-spanning country. The “teleological conventions” of frontier histories tend to be

Prior to the arrival of the Europeans, people around the world lived with awful conditions, as they lacked more modern innovations. Such innovations included indoor plumbing, roads, and faster means of transportations (Hobson 103). With the Europeans introducing the native people to these types of inventions, it’s clear that positive development ensued, as only good can come from many things that the Europeans had brought with them. Especially in Africa, which came almost completely under European control in 1884 following the Berlin Conference, the territories developed for the better. Indoor plumbing, among many other things brought better sanitations, ultimately leading to less disease (Lynn). Developed roads and faster means of transportation, including steam boats to move goods from continent to continent, meant it was considerably easier to maintain international trade. With faster transportation, Africans were introduced to a number of products that had previously been unavailable, because of the length of time needed to ship them. They were also able to export goods, typically through the European nation that was controlling them, which brought in a new source of income (Said 114). Imperialism often did good for the people living in in areas that were significantly

According to document five, colonization was positive for Europe because they attained many more resources. This allowed many more industries to grow and flourish including the textile industry because of an increase in cotton coming into Europe. Also, in document four, another positive economic change is shown, with an increase in new technology and other advances. New technological advances allowed the economy to grow. They allowed Europeans to successfully invade and conquer Africa, allowing them to attain new resources and grow rich. Lastly, a both a negative and positive effect is explained in document six. This is positive for the Europeans because it allowed them to grow rich on the backs of slaves and the free labor they provided. However, this is negative for Africans, as they were forced into slavery, or were paid very little, which did not help their economy. Overall, the economic changes were great, but affected the Europeans much more positively than the the African

As Tindall and Shi put it, “ tribal cohesion and cultural life disintegrated, and efforts to resist European assaults collapsed” (15). The Spanish and Portuguese immediately began to enslave the surviving Indians and put them to work in mines and on sugar plantations under a system they called the, “encomienda system”. Many of the elite American Indians who survived disease did not fare any better, as their legitimacy as chiefs and religious leaders was stripped away from them. This system was meant to colonize, subjugate, and forcefully assimilate the Native Americans to cruel and harmful condition, all in the name of profit (Parker 54). Soon, however, the European empires faced a problem regarding the low amount of laborers due mainly to the smallpox epidemic. This caused the Spanish and Portuguese empires to switch from American Indian labor, to African slave labor. Bringing the African slaves to the Western hemisphere began a long history of bondage that would continue in the American continents until Brazil finally abolished slavery in 1888. To add to all of that, the African slaves brought their own diseases that not even the white europeans were immune to such as, malaria, yellow fever, and cholera among others. The diminution of American Indian populations continued even after the fall of the Incan and Aztec empires. As the

When the Europeans first arrived in Latin America, they didn’t realize the immensity of their actions. As history has proven, the Europeans have imposed many things on the Latin American territory have had a long, devastating effect on the indigenous people. In the centuries after 1492, Europeans would control much of South America and impose a foreign culture upon the already established civilizations that existed before their arrival. These imposed ideas left the continent weak and resulted in the loss of culture, the dependence on European countries, and a long standing ethnic tension between natives and settlers which is evident even to this day. The indigenous people of South America, which

Former slaves discovered a deep feeling of insecurity after the downfall of the monarchy. Since Brazil had always been a paternalistic culture (an Emperor and an autocrat of a patriarchal house to protect them), it even led to some men and women becoming nostalgic of their former ‘big houses’, as they were known, and were desperate for the patriarchal assistance they once had in abundance. Yet, the popular president Getulio Vargas finally understood the sociological and psychological situation of the former slaves and gave a large part of the Brazilian labour population protection against exploitation from commercial

When Cabral landed in Brazil he saw the potential and resources the land had to offer. He was welcomed with open

In America they start to suffer from losing a lot of people that lived there. The labor of the Africans helps to build new societies in America. Now let’s talk about Brazil and the US, in many places in the world America is known as the bad guy and we actually don’t know why. In America in 1865 they abolished slavery and in Brazil they abolished slavery in 1888.

The majority of the population in Brazil is predominantly Pretos and Pardos; there are very few “white” Brazilians in Brazil. Pretos are people who a very dark skinned, “black”. Pardos are considered as people who are a little bit lighter, “brown”. Though there are few “whites” in Brazil, “white” Brazilians still feel they are superior and still have a control over Brazil.

The Portuguese explored vast regions in the Pacific World and conquered territories in South America. Both Portugal and Spain wanted control of territories of land in South America so in order to avoid war they agreed to the Treaty of Terdestilla, where Portugal got what is currently known as Brazil and the Spanish Empire got all the lands west of Brazil. In Brazil the Portuguese needed laborers to help them with their sugar plantations. At first they tried to enslave Native Americans but this was difficult because the Indian could flee into the land and many died from diseases that came from the Western World. The Portuguese solved this problem by enslaving Africans and bringing them to Brazil. In Brazil the Portuguese used their enslaved Africans to work on their sugar plantations and make them wealthy, “Africans constituted the overwhelming majority of the captive labor force that worked the sugar plantations of the Northeast, the region that was at that time the economic engine of the giant Portuguese colony” (Cotroll, 2011). The Portuguese’s brutally exploited these people for their economic benefit. Slaves usually had short lifespans because of how brutally they were treated. The Portuguese Empire’s ruthless conquest goes to show that the Pacific World was a brutal anarchic realm where the powerful ruled over the

Valuable goods to trade and land was their main goals. Some of them were planning to stay in Brazil and some others wanted to go back to their families in Portugal to sell the goods they found. One thing they found was a tree that goes by the name of Caesalpinia Echinata. But was originally named ‘pau do brasil’ before the 16th when it was changed. Which was a Brazil wood tree and with the tree they found out they could create red dye. Soon the Portuguese decided they wanted to stay, they started to import African slaves. Sugar became very popular and produced greatly in the area. The Portuguese over the years frequently intermarried the African slaves with the Native Indians to represent a diverse population. Brazil came exceptionally diverse over the years with including the following; Europeans, Africans, Amerindian, Asian, and many others. But like how other countries got their name, it was changed quite a few times. Brazil was first called IIha de Vera Cruz (Island of the True Cross). But very soon they quickly changed it to Terra de Santa Cruz (Land of the Holy Cross) because they were soon to realize that Brazil isn’t an

During the colonial period, from 1500 till 1822, the Portuguese did not promoted their own language in Brazil, in contrast to the French and British colonisers. The French were single minded in the prosecution of their language and they were consicious of a ‘civilizing mission’ (Phillipson 111). Whereas the Portuguese main goals were not related to missionary or civilizing mission, they were primarily interested in wealth and resources. At first they were not planning to actually live in Brazil, therefore language policy was not their first concern. However this changed and more white, Portuguese men settled down in Brazil and due to the lack of European women, married the local women. In present Brazil 38.5% of the population is mulatto (CIA World Factbook), which is a mixture of black and white, as a result of these mixed marriages. The new ‘mulatto’ generation mainly learned to speak the language of the Tupinambá tribe, who were living along the Atlantic Coast