Major PointsPortugal Dominates the African wing of European ExpansionPortugal “discovers” Brazil during its African trading campaignsPortugal integrates Brazil into its African colonization plan by specializing in monocrop agriculturePortugal at the beginning of the 16th centuryReconquest experience in the 1200sLeaders among Europeans in oceanic travel and tradePrince Henry the NavigatorAfrican/Portuguese InteractionsAfrican Domestic Slaves in LisbonPortuguese Colony of Angola in the 16th CenturyAfrican CatholicismSao Tome: Main island off the coast of Africa that the Portuguese conquer. Produces sugar. Enslave people of Angola to work the plantations in Sao Tome.Portuguese Conquest of BrazilCabral, 1500: Landed in Brazil in 1500. He drew a map to express the knowledge of the land that they have experienced. He names in Santa Cruz.From the land called Santa Cruz to the land called BrazilIndigenous Population of Brazil at the time of ConquestPopulation numbered 2.5 million to 3 millionNo centralized empireTupinambaPortuguese ColonizationCaptaincy System: A petitioning system for a Portuguese person to build up his own boats and crew of men to go to the new world (Brazil) to exploreBrazilian Deforestation: Portuguese wanted Brazilian trees for the wood to build their boats and houses.Brazilian Sugar PlantationsCaptaincies: Sao Vincente and Pernambuco mainly take on the sugar cash cropFirst sugar mill in 1533: After a sugar cane is cut, it needs to be pressed very quickly in order to save the sugar liquid that will come out. Sugar plantations ran 24/7 in order to keep the most sugar possibleMameluco Society: Portuguese peopleNative American EnslavementNegros da Terra (Blacks of the Earth): Enslaved indigenous people that are not technically blackBandeirantesAldeias: Slave tradersAfrican Slavery in BrazilTransition from Native American to African SlaveryMercantilism and the Slave TradeThe Portuguese Empire and the New World02/04/2015Major Points-Portugal Dominates the African wing of European Expansion-Portugal “discovers” Brazil during its African trading campaigns-Portugal integrates Brazil into its African colonization plan by specializing in monocrop agriculture Portugal at the beginning of the 16th century-Reconquest experience in the 1200s-Leaders among Europeans in oceanic travel and trade-Prince Henry the NavigatorAfrican/Portuguese Interactions-African Domestic Slaves in Lisbon-Portuguese Colony of Angola in the 16th Century-African Catholicism-Sao Tome: Main island off the coast of Africa that the Portuguese conquer. Produces sugar. Enslave people of Angola to work the plantations in Sao Tome.Portuguese Conquest of Brazil-Cabral, 1500: Landed in Brazil in 1500. He drew a map to express the knowledge of the land that they have experienced. He names in Santa Cruz.-From the land called Santa Cruz to the land called BrazilIndigenous Population of Brazil at the time of Conquest-Population numbered 2.5 million to 3 million-No centralized empire-TupinambaPortuguese Colonization-Captaincy System: A petitioning system for a Portuguese person to build up his own boats and crew of men to go to the new world (Brazil) to explore-Brazilian Deforestation: Portuguese wanted Brazilian trees for the wood tobuild their boats and houses.Brazilian Sugar Plantations-Captaincies: Sao Vincente and Pernambuco mainly take on the sugar cashcrop-First sugar mill in 1533: After a sugar cane is cut, it needs to be pressed very quickly in order to save the sugar liquid that will come out. Sugar plantations ran 24/7 in order to keep the most sugar possible-Mameluco Society: Portuguese peopleNative American Enslavement-Negros da Terra (Blacks of the Earth): Enslaved indigenous people that arenot technically black-Bandeirantes-Aldeias: Slave tradersAfrican Slavery in Brazil-Transition from Native American to African Slavery-Mercantilism and the Slave