Encounter: Brazilian Counterexample

 Pedro Alvares Cabral was bound for India.  Sailing from Portugal down the west coast of Africa and swung out into the South Atlantic, bumping into Brazil. Portuguese Encounter Brazil

 Named it “Island of the True Cross” and continued to India.  Brazil offered little to Portugal. Portuguese Encounter Brazil

 Pero Vaz de Caminha described what he saw in a letter. Indigenous wore no clothes.  Portuguese were interested in a red dye from “brazilwood” tree. Portuguese Encounter Brazil

 In the 1530s, French ships Appear near Brazilian coast.  King sent Portuguese settlers to Brazil. Portuguese Become Interested in Brazil

 Portuguese wanted land from the Tupi.  Sugar cane became the cash crop in Brazil because it did not grow in Europe. Portuguese Become Interested in Brazil

o Portuguese started attacking and enslaving the Tupi. o European diseases were deadly for the Tupi, who had no resistance. THE TUPI

o To replace the Tupi, the Portuguese would bring African slaves. THE TUPI

 Jesuits arrived in Brazil and gathered Tupi.  Taught the Tupi Christianity and defended them from slavery. THE JESUITS