The Portuguese Were the First European Settlers to Arrive in the Area

Brazil

History

•  The Portuguese were the first European settlers to arrive in the area

•  Led by ______, in 1500

•  The Portuguese reportedly found native Indians numbering around ______.

•  Most tribes were nomadic, with only limited agriculture and temporary houses, although villages often had as many as ______inhabitants.

•  ______appears to have been richly developed, although both tribal warfare and cannibalism were ever-present.

•  The few remaining traces of Brazil's Indian tribes reveal little of their lifestyle, unlike the evidence from other ______.

•  Today, fewer than ______of Brazil's indigenous people survive, most of who inhabit the jungle areas.

•  Other Portuguese explorers followed looking for goods for European trade but also for unsettled land and the opportunity to escape poverty in Portugal itself.

•  The only item of value they discovered was the pau do brasil (______) from which they created red dye.

•  Unlike the colonizing philosophy of the Spanish, the Portuguese in Brazil were much less focused at first on conquering, controlling, and developing the country.

•  Most were impoverished sailors, who were far more interested in ______and subsistence ______than in territorial expansion. The country's interior remained unexplored.

•  ______, and with it came imported slaves.

•  In the 19th century ______as Brazil's most important product. The boom in ______brought a wave of almost one million ______, mostly Italians, and also brought about the Brazilian republic.

Population

·  Brazil has the______largest population in the world--about ______million people--which has doubled in the past ______years. Because of its size,there are only ______people per square kilometer, concentrated mainly along the coast and in the major cities, where two-thirds of the people now live: over ___ million in greater Sao Paulo and ______million in greater Rio.

Language

•  The immigrant ______language was greatly influenced by the numerous Indian and African dialects they encountered, but it remains the ______in Brazil today. In fact, the ______has become the dominant influence in the development of the Portuguese language, for the simple reason that Brazil has ______times the population of Portugal and a much more dynamic linguistic environment.

Tourism

·  cities, beaches, ______and Rainforest, adventure tourism, ecotourism, culture

·  ______, Sao Paulo, Brasilia: modern cities with world class restaurants, shopping, and ______

·  tropical climate, over 8,000 white sand beaches, seasons reversed due to southern hemisphere location (______)

·  pristine natural environment, boat tours on the ______

______, heritage sites

·  white water rafting, hiking, sailing, forest tours, camping, spelunking, scuba diving

·  ______: growing in popularity and availability, natural reserves, environmental protection, diving tours, ______, swimming in lagoons, qualified guides, strong culture and customs, ______, soccer, ______, beef, fowl, seafood, fruits, music & dance tied to religion, ______