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2. Damianada Cunha In the hills of Goias was hidden gold that eventually the frontiersman and adventures from Portugal and Sao Paulo took over. She was intelligent and wanted to bring her people back because of how cruel they were treating them as slaves. She was loyal to the Church and interpreter of its teaching to her.

3. Gold Rush/ Luis da Cunha When gold rush was discovered in the hills of the region Goias, Portuguese settlers set up slave camps. The Caiapo people were the most successful in undermining the digger’s work, attacking travelers and cutting communication. Governer Luis da Cunha did more than anyone to Pacify and make peace with the natives, as the government’s main focus was to mine all the gold possible

4. Damiana tried to encourage her people to live adapt to the settled way the Portuguese lived. They would grant then access to the Christian faith, and protection. Damiana was against the way of the new life and ideas. She eventually died sick and exhausted by trying to bring peace to the frontier, to preserve the Aldeia way of life and save her people from extinction. But neither side gave her a chance and she lost hope in the violent collision of cultured and economic life. She had failed her people died of diseases in 1831.

5. HistoryofPortugal The history of Portugal, a European and an Atlantic nation, dates back to the Early Middle Ages. In the 15th and 16th centuries, it ascended to the status of a world power during Europe's "Age of Discovery" as it built up a vast empire including possessions in South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia.In the next two centuries, Portugal gradually lost much of its wealth and status as the Dutch, English and French took an increasing share of the spice and slave trades (the economic basis of its empire), by surrounding or conquering the widely-scattered Portuguese trading posts and territories, leaving it with ever fewer resources to defend its overseas interests.

6. Portuguese Empire The Portuguese Empire also known as the Portuguese Overseas Empire or the Portuguese Colonial Empire was the first global empire in history. In addition, it was the longest-lived of the modern European colonial empires, spanning almost six centuries, from the capture of Ceutain 1415 to the handover of Macau in 1999. The empire spread throughout a vast number of territories that are now part of 49 different Sovereign States.

7. Colonial Brazil In the history of Brazil,Colonial Brazil comprises the period from 1500, with the arrival of the Portuguese, until 1815, when Brazil was elevated to United Kingdomwith Portugal. During the over 300 years of Brazilian colonial history, the economic exploration of the territory was based first on brazilwood extraction (16th century), sugar production (16th-18th centuries), and finally on gold and diamond mining (18th century). Slaves, specially those brought from Africa , provided most of the working force of Brazilian economy. In contrast to the neighbouring fragmented Spanish possessions, the Portuguese colony, built up by the Portuguese in Latin America, kept its territorial unity and linguistic integrity after the independence, giving rise to the largest country in the region - Brazil, an emerging superpower.