Indigenous People
Colonization
Random Facts
Pedro Alvarez Cabral
Agriculture
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How many Indigenous people were thought to be in Brazil before colonization? 

11 million 

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Whats the official language of Brazil post colonization? 

Portuguese 

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What was Brazil called before Brazil? 

Vera Cruz, which means the cross. 

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Is he consider to be like Christopher Columbus for Brazil? the false discoverer? 

Yes

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Did they enjoy coffee? 

yes

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What were women roles in the Kayapo society? 

Farming and gardening

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What did the Indigenous people make their swords out of when they were fighting the colonizers? 

Brazilwood tree

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Why did the land/country of Brazil end up as a Portuguese colony? 

The Treaty of Tordesillas.

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What year/month/day did Pedro Alvarez Cabral "discover" Brazil? 

April 22nd 1500

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True or False, they didn't farm seaweed? 

False 

300

What does the term Kayapo mean? 


 Those who look like monkeys


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Duarte Pacheco Pereira tells tales of being in Brazil in what year? 

1498

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True or False, there were lots of seashells on the beach because the indigenous people ate a lot of seafood?  

True

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Where was Pedro Alvarez Cabral on route to when he "discovered" Brazil? 

India

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Which was not farmed, beets, peanuts, sweet potatoes, chili peppers or yams? 

beets