Oi e Bem-vindos a Brasil!!! With a population of almost 200 million people, Brazil would far and away be the busiest country that I will have visited throughout the Americas on this trip. South America's biggest country at 8.45 million square kilometers (about the size of the United States) is home to roughly 90% of the Portuguese population in the world. The Portuguese first arrived in Brazil early in the 1500's, expressing interest in the red dye from Brazil wood (origin of the country's name) that grew plentiful along the coast. They exported this highly valued dye back to Europe to be used in the clothing industry. Later on though, the Portuguese discovered sugar cane deeper within the country & enslaved the indigenous tribes that originally resided in the area to help harvest the sugar cane for export. These natives were primarily nomadic hunter gatherers and agricultural farmers who tried to fight back but in the end was too overwhelmed by the foreigners. To help with the increased world demand of Brazilian sugar, the Portuguese imported a lot of enslaved Africans from Angola and Mozambique to work on the sugar cane farms.
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