It all started on the 9th of March 1454 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy (Rosenberg, Matt. "Amerigo Vespucci."). His parents, Ser Nastagio and Lisabetta Mini Vespucci knew Amerigo’s passion for astronomy that helped him a lot during his exploration. He did not know that he would be the great man he is still considered 500 years later. Amerigo Vespucci got a lot of rewards throughout his life, and was very well treated by the countries he navigated for. He won a few titles, and was remembered well after his death. Amerigo Vespucci first main voyage on sea was in 1498 ("Amerigo Vespucci Facts." Amerigo Vespucci.),with the Kingdom of Spain. On his first travel with Portugal, he was invited as an observer, and his goal was to claim land in the southern part of the New World. During the journey to Brazil, Vespucci’s role was commander. ("Amerigo He wrote a letter to his Lord, Pier Soderini, explaining him what happened. He explains that a few days before he left Brazil, the natives declared war with them, and since the Portuguese had taken their precautions, they armed themselves to their best, and the second they heard the cannons, the Natives fled. He also says that after knowing that, he burnt down their villages, and captured 222 natives and sent them to Spain for slavery. The reason why this is a very negative impact is because the Spainsh killed a lot of natives that could have totally changed Brazil’s history, native language and more("Amerigo Vespucci Facts." Amerigo Vespucci Facts.). Also, this is a huge injustice, as the natives in Brazil didn’t provoke or harm the Conquistadors, unlike how the Spanish treated them. They also captured 5 little girls in Brazil and forced the villagers to get precious metals from their grounds for them, as well as to give them shelter and
May, 1501 Amerigo Vespucci had just left for his 2nd voyage to the new continent. When he arrives in St, Augustine, Florida, he spends time talking to the natives, after spending time learning to communicate with them. He finds out that there is someone coming over seas, from about 100 leagues out, and coming over and killing, capturing, and enslaving them. Vespucci promises to avenge the ones that the natives have lost. Vespucci also says that 7 natives will be allowed to come with, but in their own canoes, for they did not want to be held responsible for their leaving and food. Off begins the journey to avenge the lost natives.
... K. Manchester is an authority on the history of Brazil and its relations with Great Britain. In an article entitled, “The Recognition of Brazilian Independence”, Manchester argues, “the struggle for independence in Brazil was influenced decisively by the intimate and unique ties which bound Portuguese America to Europe.”; independence was ultimately won by diplomacy. In his letter to John Jay, Thomas Jefferson cautiously explores the possibilities of engaging in a war with Portugal for the independence of Brazil and recognizes that the colony cannot conduct a revolution without the help of a powerful nation. Brazil considered the North American revolution a precedent for theirs. Jefferson maintained that the United States was not in any condition to engage in war. Jefferson's letter helps discredit the United States as Brazil’s primary benefactor during this time.
Vespucci was one of the European Explorer that help discovered the New World and new places by navigating and by discovering new places it helped change the impact on the world by the triangle trade and diseases. In the text “Letter of Exploration”, All about Explorers.com argues that Amerigo had been sailing aroumd the New World without even knowing it. Based upon this research, it is clear that Amerigo Vespucci is significant because his letter to Columbus helped Columbus find the New World before Vespucci did. This evidence supports my thesis because after Vespucci wrote the letter to Columbus. Columbus started to explore using help with Vespucci’s letter. Christopher then found the New World before Amerigo
We must begin with Brazil’s history in order to understand the problem and how it came to exist. During the year 1500, Brazil was “discovered” by the Portuguese. The Portuguese saw the indigenous people as “savages” because they did not look or dress like Europeans. Hence, the idea that indigenous people are “savages” help influence the Portuguese that indigenous people need to be controlled and become more civilized. During the 16th century the Portuguese used “black” slaves to work in plantations to increase trading in Europe. After the year 1850 slave trade was abolished, but the Portuguese continued to bring slaves from Africa, illegally. Edward Eric Telles states, “Roughly three hundred years later, when the slave trade ended in 1850, 3.6 million African Americans had been brought to Brazil as slaves, ...
Beginning in 1492, Spain had been the first European nation to sail westward across the Atlantic Ocean and colonize the Amerindian nations of the Western Hemisphere. The empire that came from this exploration extended from Virginia on the
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In his voyage he came upon the Caribbean Islands, and a Native American tribe called the Taino. When Christopher Columbus landed on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) the Taino Indians were gentle and peaceful and traded with Columbus. Christopher Columbus took the Native Americans for granted he removed them from their home land and crammed as many of the Indians as he could on his ship to show Ferdinand and Isabella his finding. In Spain, these Indians were paraded naked through the streets of Spain and sold as slaves in 1495. This caused families to be separated chilgren from their parents husbands from their wives. “Of the 550 Tanio Indians he captured only 350 survived.” (Nash, Jeffery 18)
The immediate cause of the European voyages of discovery was the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. While Egypt and Italian city-state of Venice was left with a monopoly on ottoman trade for spices and eastern goods it allowed Portugal and Spain to break the grip by finding an Atlantic route. Portugal took the lead in the Atlantic exploration because of the reconquest from the Muslims, good finances, and their long standing seafaring traditions. In dealing with agriculture, The Portuguese discovered Brazil on accident, but they concentrated on the Far East and used Brazil as a ground for criminals. Pernambuco, the first area to be settled, became the world’s largest sugar producer by 1550. Pernambuco was a land of plantations and Indian slaves. While the market for sugar grew so did the need for slaves. Therefore the African Slave start became greatly into effect. Around 1511 Africans began working as slaves in the Americas. In 1492, Columbus embarked on his voyage from Spain to the Americas. The Euro...
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Columbus and Champlain were both devoted to the success of their expeditions; however, Columbus had far more selfish intentions. Columbus was an Italian who sought aid for a journey that would travel across the Atlantic Ocean in search for riches in the East. His support did not come easy as he was rejected by the courts of Portugal, France, and England. Ultimately, Columbus was able to gain authorization and funding for a voyage to begin in 1492 by the Spanish monarchs King Ferdinand and Queen Isabel. After starting the long awaited expedition in April, Columbus was able to reach the West Indies by October of that year. Upon encountering the New World, Columbus immediately claimed the land along with its natives for his Spanish sovereigns.
In 1822, Brazil became a nation independent from Portugal. By far the largest and most populous country in South America, Brazil has overcome more than half a century of military government to pursue industrial and agricultural growth and development. With an abundance of natural resources and a large labor pool, Brazil became Latin America's leading economic power by the 1970’s.
In conclusion, the American Revolution played a role in influencing the Brazilian Revolution, but there still remain vast differences in the primary reasons for resorting to having a revolution as well as what direction the nation turned to after the revolutions.
Amerigo Vespucci was the first explorer to declare finding new land, and he is the man who named the Americas. His discovery was the start of what we call home today. One of the first well know colonies to be established on the new land was, the Jamestown Colony. This colony was located in the area that became Virginia. As this colonization grew in the new world the growth morphed into one of the largest and most powerful countries on the face of the Earth.
“A formal public commitment to legal racial equality, for example, had been the price of mass support for Latin American’s independence movements. In the generation following independence, the various mixed-race classifications typical of the caste system were optimistically banished from census forms and parish record keeping.” This was meant to make all slaves citizens, equal to all other citizens. Slavery receded in Latin America, except in non-republican Brazil, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. However, Brazil’s pursuit of independence was the least violent and provoked the least amount of change. The case of Brazil suggests that retention of colonial institutions such as monarchies lent to stability. “Brazil had retained a European dynasty; a nobility of dukes, counts, and barons sporting coats of arms; a tight relationship between church and state; and a full commitment to the institution of chattel slavery, in which some people worked others to death.”
Brazil was first “discovered” on April 22nd, 1500 by a fleet of portuguese settlers, on a ship commanded by Portuguese diplomat Pedro Cabral that was making its journey to India. When Pedro first set eyes on the land he first assumed it was a small size island. However, they came to find it was quite large, and inhabited with native people. Brazil was attractive for many Europeans such as the French, the Dutch, and the Spanish due to its resources such as red-dye wood, gold and silver, sugar, and precious stones. On December 7th, 1822, the country declared its independence from portugal and became its own country.