Brazil is an immense country with a great number of industries that contribute to its economy, one growing sector of which is tourism. Tourism is actually a key part of the economy in several regions of the country. In 2008, the country had had 5.2 million visitors, and in 2007 it was ranked the fourth [...]
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The population of Brazil is extremely diverse, due to the vast expanse of territory the country covers, and the many different ethnic and cultural groups it encompasses. One excellent venue for examining this cultural diversity is the music of Brazil. Through out the past five hundred years, the history of Brazilian music has developed many [...] Brazil is an immense country that has evolved a great deal since the time of its origin. Educating such a large population is a difficult task, but Brazil has created a public system that covers all levels of education quite well. Brazil is a massive country that covers a vast and diverse expanse of land. Thus, its population is equally diverse and encompasses many different cultural and ethnic groups. Generally, most Brazilians trace their origins to four main sources of migration: the Amerindians, the Europeans, the Africans, and the Asians. Since 1872, Brazil has conducted periodical [...] Brazil is the nation officially referred to as the Federative Republic of Brazil and is located in the continent of South America. In terms of geographical area, it is the fifth largest country, and it occupies nearly half of South America. It is also the fifth most populous country and fourth most populous democratic country [...] Brazil has had an incredibly tumultuous past four decades. Its history has always been full of conflict, from its original discovery, to its colonization by Portugal, its declaration of independence, its short lived Empire, and its many leaders, elected officials and dictators alike. Over eight thousand years ago, the first indigenous peoples arrived in Brazil by crossing the Bering land bridge into Alaska, then spreading the rest of North, Central, and South America. Brazil’s climate varies considerably around the country because it spans such a wide area. While the North is mostly tropical due to the equator traversing the mouth of the Amazon, below the Tropic of Capricorn, the climate is much more temperate. In all, there are six climatic regions in Brazil, tropical, semiarid, equatorial, highland tropical, [...] Brazil has evolved quite a bit since it was originally discovered by the Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvares Cabral on April 22, 1500. From its initial discovery, it became a colony of Portugal and remained under official Portuguese rule from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The events in Brazilian history following its colonization include the short [...] Prior to the arrival of Europeans in the territory now called Brazil in 1500, the land was occupied by many groups of indigenous people who had been there for centuries. They most likely reached Brazil by crossing the Bering Strait on foot from Asia, and migrating down through the Americas, or by sea routes along [...] In 1494, a papal bull and the Treaty of Tordesillas divided the New World between Spain and Portugal. In 1500, Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvares Cabral landed in what is now called Brazil and laid claim to it for the king of Portugal, Manuel I. Brazil became valuable to the Portuguese for its rainforests rich in [...] When the Portuguese court fled Portugal in 1808 to avoid the Napoleonic wars, they made Brazil the seat of the massive Portuguese Empire. However, in 1820, the Liberal Revolution erupted in Porto, which led the Royal family to return to safety in Portugal in 1821. Only a portion of Brazilian delegates were left behind to [...] |
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