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• In 1549, Jome de Sousa sailed to Brazil to establish a central government.
•DeSosa brought along Jesuits who set up missions that intended to save some of the indigenous population from slavery, and also convert them to Christianity.
• In 1555, French forces occupy Rio de Janeiro Harbor.
• Two years later Portugal regains control and establishes the city of Rio de Janeiro, which is the city we know and have probably heard of in Brazil today. -
• Pedro Alvarez Cabral Steps foot in South America in April 1500. They sailed out of Lisbon.
• in 1530, an expedition led by Martin Alfonso de Sosa arrived in Brazil to patrol the entire coast, and now things get political.
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• In the mid-1500s the first sugarcane farms were established.
• Sugarcane is a huge product resource in Brazil.
• At first, the Portuguese tried to enslave the native indigenous population.
• The sugar cane farms were established.
• 1654 was when the Dutch withdraw from Brazil
• From 1630 to 1654, they set up permanently, and they controlled large stretches of Brazil. Now we have another European country's presence.
• Dutch withdraw from Brazil.
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• 1654 Dutch withdraw from Brazil
• 1692 Gold is discovered in Brazil
• 1705 Portugal gives up Colonia do Sacramento
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