Portuguese colonization of the Americas

Barbados is an island country in the Caribbean located in the Atlantic Ocean. It is part of the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies and the easternmost island of the Caribbean region. It lies on the boundary of the South American and Caribbean plates. Its capital and largest city is Bridgetown.

period of European global exploration from early 15th century to 17th century

global empire centered in Portugal (1415–1999)

thumb|right|Hernán Cortés led the [[Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and expanded the Spanish Empire in the Americas]] thumb|right|Afonso de Albuquerque expanded the [[Portuguese Empire across the Indian Ocean]]

City in Uruguay, departmental capital of Colonia

treaty dividing territory between Portugal and Spain

thumb|"Roy" Edward III of England|Edward III, King of England. [[Bruges Garter Book.]] A viceroy () is an official who reigns over a polity in the name of and as the representative of the monarch of the territory.

kingdom in Europe, America and Africa

Portuguese diplomat and missionary (1608-1697)

Portuguese possession in South America (1500-1808)

Bandeirantes (; ; singular: bandeirante) were frontiersmen and explorers in colonial Brazil who, from the early 16th century, participated in inland expeditions to find precious metals and enslave indigenous peoples. They played a major role in expanding Brazil's borders to its approximate modern-day limits, beyond the boundaries demarcated by the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas.

historic Jesuit mission in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

papal bull by Alexander VI (4 May 1493) which granted to the Catholic Kings Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile all lands to the "west and south" of a line 100 leagues west and south of any of the islands of the Azores or of Cape Verde

Portuguese knight (c. 1450 – 1500)

signed by Spain and Portugal on 1750, concerning their empires and status of their territories of what is now Brazil

the social relation of production adopted in Brazil from the colonial period until just before the end of the Empire

military grade

1777 treaty between Spain and Portugal

Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator (1585–1641)

1754–1756 war in South America

16th-century Portuguese merchant of Lisbon

Portuguese explorer

Portuguese Jesuit priest (1517 – 1570)

group of languages

Portuguese colonization in South America and attempts in North America

1661 treaty between the Netherlands and Portugal

1649 battle between the Dutch and Portuguese troops

Portuguese explorer

state of the Portuguese Empire

Portuguese discovery in 1500

Portuguese colonial administsrator

kings street

1735–1737 war

Portuguese soldier and politician

Brazilian historian

Portuguese explorer

Letter accounting Portuguese arrival into present-day Brazil

1710-1711 armed conflict in Portuguese America

papal bull issued by Pope Alexander VI in 1493, granting Spain territory in the Americas

Paulist explorer

1761 treaty between Spain and Portugal

1648 battle

one of the Brazilian states of the Portuguese Empire

1641 battle

Portuguese colonial administrator

1645 battle

history of slavery abolitionism in Brazil

thumb|right|150px|Albert Eckhout: a mameluco woman in Brazil, 1641–1644 Mameluco is a Portuguese word that denotes the first generation child of a European and an Amerindian. It corresponds to the Spanish word mestizo.

Portuguese viceroyalty in Brazil 1763-1815

Dutch occupation of Brazil in the 17th century

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one of the Brazilian states of the Portuguese Empire

captaincy of Brazil

captaincy of Brazil

Portuguese soldier and colony administrator (1679-1760)

administration of the Portuguese Empire

former Portuguese colonial official