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When Pedro Álvares Cabral arrived in Brazil in 1500, he didn't "discover" an empty land. He found a territory inhabited by millions of pe...
Current estimates suggest that between 2 to 8 million indigenous people lived in Brazilian territory in 1500. For context: all of Portuga...
They dominated the Brazilian coast from Maranhão to Rio de Janeiro, with villages of up to 2,000 people. They were excellent navigators, ...
Indigenous peoples mastered pharmacological knowledge that Western science took centuries to achieve:
Many indigenous peoples practiced forms of government that Europeans of the time didn't have:
Trade routes existed that connected the entire continent:
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