Indigenous people eventually reach Brazil from America.

Indigenous groups: hunting, gathering, shifting agriculture

Based on kinship: lived with extended families (in relatively small settlements which changed locations frequently

The population of Brazil was 3-6 million before portuguese arrived.

Indigenous groups died from European diseases and slavery.

Portuguese were the first Europeans

They established a colony: sent Portuguese people to live in that area

Farmers made large sugar cane plantations in the eastern coast

Bandeirantes spread throughout the country which captured and enslaved Indigenous peoples

Large amount of gold: found in the mountains (Minas Gerais)

Set off gold rush and Brazil's industrial development

Diamonds were discovered

Worlds leading supplier of gold and diamonds (at the time)

Brazil finally abolished slavery: about 2 million Africans were enslaved until then.

People of mixed African and European descent became a significant part of the Brazilian population

Population patterns

Mix of Africans, Portuguese and Indigenous people

Ingenious populations killed by European diseases and by forced labour on plantations

Lived in coastal lowlands

Lived in highlands (sparsely)

Mining and agriculture were very important