Breve historia del Brasil, Parte 1

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Desde Pedro Alvares Cabral al prime "capitanias":

In 1500 Pedro Alvarez Cabral comenciava un viage verso le India. Le corona portugese voleva que ille usava le route maritime aperite per Vasco da Gama circum le Capa de Bon Sperantia. Pro evitar un zona de calmas in le golfo de Guinea, ille navigava verso le west e su flotta incontrava ventos que eventualmente lo impulsava usque le continente sudamerican in april, 1500.

Ben que un pauco antea le espaniol Vincente Yánnez Pinzón habeva toccate le costa brasilian, Portugal habeva le derecto a ille territorio a causa del Tractato de Tordesillas, que divideva le continente american inter Espania e Portugal. Portugal recipeva le derecto de controlar le territorio al est de un linea divisori inter 48 e 49 grados al west de Greenwich; e Espania, le territorio al west de iste linea.

Durante le duo decadas sequente, Portugal esseva interessate principalmente in su colonias oriental a causa del grande contributiones a su economia derivate del commercio in le condimentos de ille region, le quales Portugal poteva provider a Europa a un costo multo plus economic proque le transporte marin esseva multo plus facile e costava multo minus que le transporte terrestre.

Durante le annos inter 1533 e 1549 le corona portugese divideva le Brasil a in 15 divisiones territorial, nominate "capitanias", que le rege dava a homines portugese ric (donatórios), qui, a cambio de multe poteres e privilegios, debeva usar lor proprie capital pro colonisar iste territorios e disveloppar lor ressources economic.

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From Pedro Alvarez Cabral to the first "capitanias":

In 5000 Pedro Alvarez Cabral undertook a voyage toward India. The Portuguese crown wanted him to use the maritime route opened by Vasco da Gama around the Cape of Good Hope. To avoid a becalmed area in the Gulf of Guinea, he navigated westward and his fleet ran into winds that eventually carried him to the South American continent in April, 1500.

Though somewhat previously the Spaniard Vince Yánnez Pinzón had reached the Brazilian coast, Portugal had the right to that territory according to the Treaty of Tordesillas, which divided the American continent between Spain and Portugal. Portugal received the right to control the territory to the right of a dividing line between 48 and 49 degrees west of Greenwich, and Spain had the right to control the territory to the left.

During the next two decades, Portugal was interested primarily in its oriental colonies because of the great contributions to its economy from trade in the spices from that region, which Portugal could provide to Europe at a much cheaper cost because boats were much easier to use and were much less expensive than land transport.

In the years between 1533 and 1549 the Portuguese crown divided Brazil into fifteen territorial divisions, called "capitanias," which the king gave to wealthy Portuguese men (donatórios), who, in exchange for many powers and privileges, were to use their own money to colonize these territories and develop their economic resources.