Portuguese Brazil (1700)

Overview

Colonial Brazil, sometimes referred to as Portuguese America, comprises the period from 1500, with the arrival of the Portuguese, until 1815, when Brazil was elevated to a kingdom in union with Portugal. During the 300 years of Brazilian colonial history, the main economic activities of the territory were based first on brazilwood extraction, which gave the territory its name; sugar production ; and finally on gold and diamond mining. Slaves, especially those brought from Africa, provided most of the workforce of the Brazilian export economy after a brief initial period of Indigenous slavery to cut brazilwood.

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Borders & accuracy

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

• SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
• DETAILhistorical-basemaps:1715:Vice-Royalty of Brazil
• SNAPSHOT1700
• MATCHEDPortuguese Brazil
• POLITY TYPEstate

Also during this period

No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.

• Thirty Years' War1618–48
  World-changing · 8.0M dead
• Portuguese Conquest of Brazil1500–1750
  World-changing · 5.0M dead
• American Indian Wars1500–1800
  World-changing · 5.0M dead
• Qing Conquest of Ming China1618–83
  World-changing · 5.0M dead
• French Wars of Religion1562–98
  World-changing · 4.0M dead
• Spanish Conquest of Mexico1519–21
  World-changing · 3.6M dead