By: Lindsay Nelson

Granddaughter of great Caiapo chief Angrai-oxa

Became goddaughter of Luis da Cuhna and baptized Catholic to live with the governor to show peace with her native Indians.

Was very well educated for a nonwhite woman

Became the Indian Communial leader in the aldeia, or village, of sao Jose that was established for domesticated Indians

Male Azorean Priest Lived during the 16th century Born 1528 in Terceira, Azores

Islands Lived during the time

Michaelangelo, Charles V, Philip II, and Henry the VIII

Moved to Lisbon at 20 and became a priest there

Practiced medicine, even though it was against the law of the Church, when he was shipwrecked near Barcelona.

Was arrested by the Inquisition of Lisbon for superstition, divination, witchcraft, and commerce with the Devil.

Went from place to place like Lisbon, Bahia, and Brazil causing trouble wherever he went because of his scandalous actions.

Was always under heat because he studied alchemy, astrology, and said he could speak with the devils.

Was popular in Bahia and Pernambuco and became friends with Duarte Coelho de Albuquerque

Headed expeditions to the backlands of Pernambuco to search for gold and silver and to capture Indians for the slave markets of Brazil.

He was able to get the Indians to surrender themselves by using his magic

Female Born 1680 under the

name Catarina de Telles Barretto

Was part of the Desterro Convent-the only one in Brazil

Occupation: Nun Grew up and lived in

Bahia

Lived during the end of the 17th and through the 18th centuries

Wanted to live like Madre Victoria da Encarnacao because of her humility and loyalty to God

She took great satisfaction in her intelligence and financial dealings

Had a business selling sweets

In 1534, John II organized colonization of Brazil through land grants.

Increased smuggling of brazilwood pressed the effort to occupy the territory.

Martim Afonso de Sousa went to patrol the coast from French raids and there created the first 2 colonial towns: Sao Vincente and Sao Paulo.

15 original areas of Brazil were built by captaincies, captain-majors were to develop and run the land and never sell it.

Only Pernambuco and Sao Vincente prospered These 2 prospered because of the sugar cane crops. They crops

were so plentiful that Native American people were called in to help and became slaves. Eventually it would be the African American people that took over the job.

In the 18th century, a gold rush ensued in Brazil in an area known as Minas Gerais.

Portugal was especially interested because they used gold to pay for industrialized goods from other countries.

Gold was present in alluvial deposits around streams and was extracted using pans and other similar instruments that required little technology and was mostly done by slaves.

The Portuguese Crown allowed particulars to extract the gold, requiring a fifth (20%) of the gold (the quinto) to be sent to the colonial government as tribute.

When Portugal was taken over by Spain after the death of King Sebastian,Portugal was able to benefit.

They let themselves into the Spanish trade and increasingly ignored the boundaries in Brazil.

They pushed farther into the heart of Brazil and expanded their own territory to the West. The expeditions were initially to capture natives and force them into slavery, but eventually were for finding gold, silver, and diamond mines.

Eventually, after confrontations with the Dutch because of Spain, Portuguese broke off from Spain, but were never as powerful as they had once been in Brazil.