- were not wealthy
- were not slaveholders
- were primarily engaged in agriculture
- were not politically influential
The Rubber Cycle corresponds to the period in Brazilian history in which the extraction and commercialization of latex for rubber production were basic activities of the economy. In fact, they occurred in the central region of the Amazon forest, between 1879 and 1912, reinvigorating for a short tim
Chica da Silva , born Francisca da Silva, was a freed slave who lived in Arraial do Tijuco, in Minas Gerais. The myth of Chica da Silva grew from the 1950s onwards with the recovery of towns in Minas Gerais. Since then, her life has yielded movies, songs and soap operas. Biography Chica da Silva w
The Incas created one of the largest and most important American empires in the mid-fifteenth century. Their domains, which stretched along the western coast of South America, spanned more than 4,000 km. The city of Cuzco, located in the south of Peru, was the capital of this Empire.Inca Civilizatio
The Proclamation of the Republic took place on November 15, 1889. This day is a holiday, because it celebrates the date on which the republican regime was proclaimed in Brazil. The first president of Brazil was Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca. With the change from the monarchical to the republican reg