Indigenous Brazil (Before 1500)
One of the largest Indigenous groups in coastal Brazil, known for speaking a widely spread language family.
Tupi
Brazil received more enslaved people than any other country from this continent.
Africa
Dom Pedro I was originally a prince from this European kingdom.
Portugal
During the dictatorship, the government imposed strict control over media causing this.
Media censorship
Brazil hosted this major sport event in 2014.
Soccer World Cup
The Tupi and Guarani belong to this large language family.
Tupi-Guarani
This sweet crop dominated early colonial plantations.
Sugar
The date of Brazilian Independence Day.
September 7th
The dictatorship promoted the idea of Brazil as the “country of the future” through this type of development.
Economic development
Hosted this major sports event in 2016.
Olympics
This rainforest region is home to the Yanomami people.
The Amazon Rainforest
This economic discovery in the 1700s boosted Brazil’s value to Portugal.
Gold
This emperor ruled during Brazil’s modernization in the late 1800s.
Dom Pedro II
Major highway and projects expanded during this regime.
Infrastructure projects
One of the most globally recognized symbols of Brazil, reflecting its culture of joy and diversity.
Carnival
Indigenous trade networks often relied on this type of river-based transportation.
Canoeing
Many enslaved Africans worked on these large rural estates.
Plantations
Brazil abolished this in 1888, the last in the Americas to do so.
Slavery
Civil movements that led to the end of the dictatorship demanded this fundamental political right.
Democratic elections
Rapid growth of cities like São Paulo contributes to this form of inequality.
Urban inequality
This type of plant, domesticated in the Amazon, became a major Indigenous food staple.
Cassava
The system of forced labor and plantations is known by this term.
Plantation system
Brazil’s independence is unusual in Latin America because it was mostly this.
Peaceful
During the dictatorship, many citizens were arrested or punished for this.
Political Dissent
This program provides financial support to low-income families.
Bolsa Família