Brazil

Marion Morrison

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Brazil offers complete coverage of this fascinating country, including sections on history, geography, wildlife, infrastructure and government, and culture. It also includes a detailed fact file, maps and charts, and a traceable flag.

Sujets

• Brazil

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• Publié par: Capstone Global Library
• Date de parution: 06 juillet 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781406233537
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Countries Around the World Brazil

Marion Morrison

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ISBN 978 1 406 22785 7 (hardback) 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Morrison, Marion. Brazil. -- (Countries around the world) 981'.065-dc22 A full catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

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Contents

Introducing Brazil .............................................................. 4 History: an independent nation ........................................ 6 Regions and resources: a land of riches.......................... 10 Wildlife: a world treasure ................................................ 18 Infrastructure: a democratic country ............................... 24 Culture: Brazilians at play ................................................ 30 Brazil today...................................................................... 34 Factfile ............................................................................. 36 Timeline........................................................................... 40 Glossary........................................................................... 42 Find out more.................................................................. 44 Topic tools ....................................................................... 46 Index................................................................................ 48

Some words in the book are in bold,like this. You can find out what they mean by looking in the glossary.

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Introducing Brazil

Brazil is the largest country in South America. Most people have seen photographs of its vast Amazon rainforests and wonderful beaches. Many have heard of Brazil’s famous football players and its fabulous Carnival when thousands of dancers fill the streets. But there is much more to this gigantic country.

Early peoples People first entered Brazil over 10,000 years ago. Their ancestors almost certainly came from Asia, crossing the frozen Bering Straits into the American continent during the lastIce Age. These early people left few artifacts that tell us about their lifestyle. We know most werenomadic, hunting and fishing in the forests and rivers. The Tupi-Guarani, one of the larger tribes, occupied land along the coast, the Jê inhabited the centre, and the Arawaks and Caribs were in the north.

The Europeans arrive The Portuguese explorer, Pedro Álvarez Cabral, landed on the Atlantic coast on 22 April, 1500. Later the country was named Brazil after the brasilwood, a native tree that produces a red dye. The city of Salvador was founded in 1549. It was Brazil’s capital until 1763.

The Portuguese explorers discovered that sugar grew well in Brazil’s northeast. They forced the native peoples to work for free onplantations and also brought in slaves from Africa. The slaves were often treated cruelly and many tried to escape.