The Portuguese in Brazil
When the Portuguese arrived in Brazil in 1500, their situation as colonialists was very different from that of Spain in Mexico and Peru. They did not find an advanced civilization with hoards of precious metals for plunder, or a social discipline and organisation geared to provide steady tribute which they could appropriate. Brazilian Indians were mainly hunter–gatherers, though some were moving towards agriculture using slash–and–burn techniques to cultivate manioc. Their technology and resources meant that they were thin on the ground. <span>They had no towns, no domestic animals. They were stone age men and women, hunting game and fish, naked, illiterate and innumerate.</span>
•The slave population had changed.
•Independence has overcome them.
•Tax had come into play, providing commercial guidance, safety, so on.
•Economies had been brought back together, once again.
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