I believe the name is just, The Brazilian National Anthem.
12,000+ ago (it may or may not be right)
The majority of the Roman empire is located around the Mediterranean, and their capitol, Rome, was located in Italy close the the Mediterranean Sea, thus by location they are part of the Mediterranean world. If you look at a map of the Roman Empire it might help explain their location on the shores of the Mediterranean.
Russia has part of its roots in European culture where the ideas of goodness, honor, and freedom are understood as in the West. The Viking raiders came from the North. Traders from Scandinavia also settled. They became the rulers of Rus, the city-principality of Kiev and forerunner of the Russian state. The other part of Russia has Asian roots. The Mongols, [Tartars] conquered Moscow in 1234 and Kiev in 1240, and ruled with despotism, invaders unstoppable, making Russians their slaves. Russian blood is a mixture of Slavic, Finnish, and Tatar. Kievan Rus had converted to Orthodox Christianity in 988. When Moscow liberated itself from the Tartar yoke in 1480, the modern Russian state was born. Distant from Europe, the new state was cut off from Constantinople which in 1453 had fallen to the Muslim Ottoman Turks.
