ID: 901002123 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002123	Record Type: Event/Narrative

	Colonization of Brazil (South American history, from ca. 1500)

Note: Period of Brazilian history that begins around 1500, with the arrival of the Portuguese, lasting until 1815, when Brazil was elevated to a kingdom in union with Portugal as the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves. During this 300 year period, economic exploitation of the territory was based first on brazilwood, sugar production (16th–18th centuries), and later on gold and diamond mining.

Display Date: from ca. 1500-1815

Names:

	Colonization of Brazil (South American history, from ca. 1500) (preferred,c,English-P,D,N)

Hierarchical Position:

		Named Events (P)
		....<North and South American history> (P)
		........<Brazilian history> (P)
		............Colonization of Brazil (South American history, from ca. 1500) (I)

Other Relationships:

	located in .... Brazil
	.....(South America) (TGN)

	actor is .... Portugal
	.....(Portalegre, Portugal, Europe) (TGN)

	actor is .... France
	.....(Europe) (TGN)

	role/characteristic is .... colonization
	.....(governmental functions, functions by specific context, functions (activities), Functions (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Colonization of Brazil (South American history, from ca. 1500)
	................Langer, Encyclopedia of World History (1980) 1403

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Langer, Encyclopedia of World History (1980)