How Did Brazil's Population Become So Diverse?
Learn about how Brazil's population became one of the most diverse in the world.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Media Editor: Lee Goldstein
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Media Editor: Lauren Sims
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Media Editor: Lee Goldstein
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Media Editor: Lauren Sims
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Gold and other mineral deposits in parts of the Amazon River basin have drawn both corporate and individual mining efforts.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Deforestation of the Amazon River basin has followed a pattern of cutting, burning, farming, and grazing. This process is then repeated on adjacent plots of land, steadily pushing back the borders of the Amazon Rainforest.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Portrait of Rio de Janeiro as a city of contrasts.
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NARRATOR: Flocks of birds migrate here from both north and south. People from Europe migrated across the Atlantic in search of good farmland.
The Portuguese settled along the coast of Brazil.
They conquered Indians and brought Africans to slave as farmhands.
Both the Indians and Africans were converted to Catholicism.
After independence, the language and religion of Portugal were maintained in Brazil.
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Though the conquerors had made inhuman demands, separation of the races was not one of them. In fact, the Portuguese often intermarried with the Africans and Indians.
The later arrivals included other Europeans and Asians, and today Brazil boasts one of the greatest blends of people on earth.
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The Portuguese settled along the coast of Brazil.
They conquered Indians and brought Africans to slave as farmhands.
Both the Indians and Africans were converted to Catholicism.
After independence, the language and religion of Portugal were maintained in Brazil.
[Music in]
Though the conquerors had made inhuman demands, separation of the races was not one of them. In fact, the Portuguese often intermarried with the Africans and Indians.
The later arrivals included other Europeans and Asians, and today Brazil boasts one of the greatest blends of people on earth.
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