I had no idea of what I should write this time, so I started to read my classmates' blogs. I saw Loreta's blog where she gives a excellent geography and history information about her country.
Because of that, I decided to write about my country, Brazil.
Brazil is located in South America and it takes more than half of the continent. Considering the area, Brazil is the fifty largest country in the world and has the fifty largest population, which is more that 176 million.
The Brazilian history started in 1500 when a Portuguese navigator, called Pedro Alvares Cabral, was the first European to arrive at the South region of the New Continent.
The Portuguese people found that in the new colony there were o lot of trees very similar to one that was found in Africa, from which they extracted a potent red pigment, called Brazil Tree. They decided to name the new colony with the same name as the tree.
Because of the weather, hot and humid, the Portuguese people found in that new territory they could cultivate crops that the Europeans liked but it was impossible to grow there, such as sugar cane, coffee, and cocoa. The Portuguese started to grow these crops, but they needed people to work, so they started to force the indigenous people to work in their farms. It is estimated that there were around 4 million indigenous people living in Brazil at that time and they were very friendly, but their life style of absolutely freedom and total integration with the nature, become incompatible with the job. The Indians preferred the death than the work in farms.Without works to grow their crops, the Portuguese found a solution. They started to capture slaves in their African colonies. The Africans were strong, hard working and had an immense desire to live, so the Portuguese were able to control them. (I took this information from Historic books it is not my opinion)
Brazil became the largest producer of coffee, sugar and cocoa and other tropical products in the centuries 16, 17 and 18 and provided a wealthy life to all the Portuguese people at that time.
To be continued in the next blog…
5 comments:
Wow, that was some really interesting information about Brazil. I can't wait to read the next blog!
That sounds intersting. The name Brazil comes from a kind of tree!By the way I like Brazilian music very much for example....Bossa Nova
hi, carlos! thank you for your blog! from there, i got lots of knowledge about your country! it is interesting! hope to see your nest blog!
Hi Carlos.
Brazilia is the country, which I was dreaming to visit along with Australia and Holland.
Thank you very much for the table. I am very proud that there are still some things which make Russia to be the first in the world. Yulia.
“To be continued in the next blog” means that there is something suspension. You are really good at writing fiction. Similar to other classmates, I can’t wait to read your blog now.
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