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The Portuguese in Brazil: Gold, Sugar, and the Tupi
We left Lisbon’s bustling warehouses and Goa’s fortresses behind to look at how a small European nation built a global empire. But there was another frontier, one that didn’t involve spices or gunpowder initially, but rather something far more immediate: land. In this episode, we travel to the Atlantic coast of South America to explore the early days of Portuguese Brazil. We’ll meet Martim Afonso de Sousa, the first governor-general who tried to turn a scattered collection of settlements into a real colony. You’ll hear about the sugar plantations that changed the economic landscape, the…
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