Pedro Alvares Cabral

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Brazil is a country that was discovered in 1500, which ended up being claimed by the Portuguese navigator known as Pedro Alvares Cabral. It was also rule from Lisbon as a colony until 1808. In its first forty years of its republican history. When the country began to export gold to Portugal the region began to welcome people known as fortune hunters from all over, boatloads of people carpenters, stonemasons ,and sculptors. They all came from Europe to build cities in the Brazilian word. In 1763 , the countries capital was moved to Rio de janeiro, which was created for political and administrative reasons. When the company moved the capital it ended up starving successfully by other European nations. It added cotton and tobacco to sugar, gold

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