Portugal

Uruguay has a stellar physical geography with many land and water features. Uruguay is a fairly small country at only 68,000 square miles. This country is split into three main parts, the Western Lowlands, the Central Plateau, and the Coastal Plain. The Central Plateau has two cuchillas or granite landforms.

A majority of the Portuguese population living in Canada, rather live in the big cities such as Toronto, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec due to the fact that they had a greater possibility of earning more money while working the same jobs elsewhere (Higgs, 1990). Another majority of the Portuguese population in Canada also lived in medium-sized cities such as Ottawa, Kitchener, Hull, Hamilton, and Winnipeg; however Kitchener is definitely surprising for a medium sized city, because apparently there is a great amount of Portuguese that immigrated there (Higgs, 1990).

Portugal went through a big economic crisis so many Portuguese moved to South America. They started to trade brazil wood trees and established communities along the shores. Slavery was common at the time and most of the slaves came from Africa. This produced the exploitation of the Amazon rainforest which occurred during the military rule in the 1970’s which resulted in great damage to the rainforest. (brazil.org.za,

The Treaty of Tordesillas drew a north and south line that was about 1,100 miles west of the Cape Verdes Islands. Portugal obtained what was on the east and Spain received what was on the west. Though this limited Portugal’s New world, they did empire Brazil; which benefitted them in sugar plantations by slaves and also claims of Africa and Asia.

1476- Christopher Columbus was residing in Portugal and he had a strong and growing desire to sail and discover new lands.

Portugal was one of the, if not the only, technological and economic geniuses of the fifteenth century. As a result of their genius, Portugal was able to build one of the first caravels and sail around the coast of Africa in an attempt to find a sea route to India. As a result of this attempt,

The president’s role as chief of state means that he is the ceremonial head of the government.

Lisbon is the main area that Henry the Navigator sent out his ships to discover the new world. This became a very popular trading depot because of its location and finding new things during exploration. This was a place where the Colombian Exchange happened, especially with what is now Brazil. This is also where Ferdinand Magellan set off to sail completely around the earth.

To begin with, Portuguese had more motivations and perceptions compared to Ming Chinese and since, Portugal was able to dominate the Indian Ocean while China can not. There were 3 reasons why Portugal had more success time than China and I believe that those 3 reasons are military force, idea and culture(the way they think). For example, Portugal was compared with fearful animals, other countries admired them and China stopped the trade with foreign countries because they were scared of attacks and invasions from Portugal. First, according to document 3,8 and 10 several countries in Asia were scared of Portuguese military force because in document 10 the chronicles of the Kings of Sri Lanka(Ceylon) in 1498 showed his fear toward Portugal

It remained under the rule of Visigoth until Islam’s arrival via the Moors in 711 CE. From being the westernmost part of the Roman Empire to western-most part of the Islamic empire. They created one of the longest and lasting maritime empires in history after their Reconquista in 1250 and made a treaty of Ayllon with Castile to continue the Crusade against Muslims and regain the spoils of war from the port. Portugal found a sea route to India onwards Asia. They build trading post and forts. They defeated Goa in India and set a foothold in Asia. They colonized Brazil in 1530 so that they can defend it. Their ulterior motive was to divide Brazil into 15 capitanias so that enough wealth to support a settlement

Portugal began to enact upon expanding their territory and discovering new land in the late 1400s; they set out upon different expeditions under the control of Henry the Navigator, although, they did not travel very far since they were afraid the earth was flat and they may fall off. When they realized Columbus discovered America for Spain, in 1492, Portugal decided to restart their expeditions in order to drive away Spanish competition. This sparked the chain of expansion among the world in the 16th and 17th centuries.

LaTessia Shane Professor Karmosky Geography 151 21 May 2015 California and Portugal Portugal and the Southwestern part of California both have the same climate type. The climate type is Mediterranean. Mediterranean climates have hot, dry, sunny summers and a winter rainy season. (Thomas et al.

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)

Stretching over 2,500 miles form east to west and 2,700 miles from north to south, Brazil is the world’s largest tropical country. The only nations that are larger are the lands of Russia, Canada, China and the United States. Brazil has more then 150 million people spread unevenly over its huge land area, making it the fifth most populated country in the world. (Encyclopedia.com) More then two thirds of Brazil’s people live in the cities and towns and more then 29 percent of them are in the ten cities with more then a million people. These include the metropolitan area of Sao Paulo with more then 15 million people and Rio de Janeiro with more then 9 million people. The rural population is mostly concentrated on the East Coast or

The head of state is the federal president; the post is purely ceremonial and rotates annually among the members of the Federal Council.