Questions tagged [brazil]
Questions regarding the history of Brazil / Brasil, the largest country in both South America and Latin America.
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Who issued this poster promoting Japanese migration to Brazil?
Several Wikipedia editions use this poster promoting Japanese immigration to Brazil in the early 20th century. However, different Wikipedias describe it as "a Japanese government propaganda ...
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What language, culture, traditions etc, gives their son only the father family names and their daughters the mother family names?
I'm sorry, if this is not the right place to ask this question. I'm currently doing research in genealogy, and I have encountered a pattern: if you go back enough generations, the luso-hispanic way of ...
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What did Portugal do with the money from Brazilian independence?
Brazil paid 2 million pounds sterling to Portugal as compensation for independence; this was established in the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro (1825) which was mediated by Britain.
ART. IV - There will now ...
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What are the figures in the "Goodbye Donald Trump" video [closed]
I am trying to classify the figures in this video
From 0:00 to 0:12 - Statue of Liberty
From 0:14 to 0:20 - Abraham Lincoln
From 0:22 to 0:24 - ?
From 0:25 to 0:33 - ?
From 0:42 to 0:45 - ?
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Why is the Amazon rubber boom said to have started in 1879?
According to Amazon Rubber Boom
From the beginning of the second half of the 19th century, rubber began to exert a strong attraction to visionary entrepreneurs. The activity of latex extraction in ...
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How, where and when did Lily Pettigrew die?
Lily Pettigrew (born Lilian Pettigrew, on 25 Feb 1870, in Portsmouth in the UK) was a famous artist's model in turn-of-the-century London, alongside her equally famous sisters Hetty and Rose. She is ...
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How possible was it for colonizers to sail up the Paraná River to today's states of Paraná and São Paulo?
I know that there was a harbor as far as in Porto Feliz (state of São Paulo) on Tietê river. But I wonder whether it was only for the downstream transport, or also the upstream.
I have searched on ...
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Did the Portuguese Crown sponsor Brazilian gold-seeking expeditions (bandeiras) in the 17th century?
The end of the 17th century is the beginning of the gold rush in Brazil. Shortly before there were expeditions (bandeiras) of explorers (later called bandeirantes) who were seeking precious minerals ...
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Why was sugar cultivation more profitable in the Caribbean/Brazil than West Africa?
The Atlantic slave trade involved the large-scale deportation of West African slaves to sugar plantations on the other side of the Atlantic.
Why was it more profitable to do that, rather than to ...
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Why has the Brazilian currency been changed so often throughout its history?
It seems like currency in Brazil has been changed many times over the period of its existence. The last time the currency changed was in 1994, with the introduction of the modern Brazilian Real (BRL, ...
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How can a diamond shape be a reference to Napoleon?
The green and yellow on the Brazilian flag are references to the Houses of Bragança and Lorraine (of Francis I and II of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine), respectively. It seems that the diamond shape ...
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Why does Brazil have many more Italian descendants than the U.S. or Argentina when the latter two received more Italian immigrants?
According to the wikipedia page about Italian emigration (in Portuguese, but the table with immigrants to each country is very easy to read) the U.S. received 5.6 million Italians between 1870 and ...
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How can the impact of moving the Brazilian capital be analyzed? [closed]
Around 50 years ago Brasília became the capital of Brazil. The distances between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro - where the biggest part of the population live - from Brasília are big enough to have ...
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What was the attitude of Brazil's government towards the Spanish Civil War?
I suppose you could argue it's not uber-important what they thought about a war on another continent in which they had no direct stake, but all the other countries in Latin America couldn't afford to ...
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