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The Portuguese Discovery of Brazil and the Pau-Brasil Trade
In this episode of The History of Portugal: The Small Nation That Built a Global Empire, Lucas and Luna explore the early Portuguese encounters with Brazil, focusing on the discovery by Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500 and the subsequent exploitation of pau-brasil, the prized redwood dye. They discuss the initial indifference of the Portuguese crown, the establishment of feitorias for logging, and the conflict with French interlopers who also sought the valuable resource. The episode delves into the Treaty of Tordesillas that claimed the land for Portugal, the role of Amerigo Vespucci in the…
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