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A Brief History of Brazil: Team Corinthians
A Brief History of Brazil: Team Corinthians
A Brief History of Brazil: Team Corinthians
Team Corinthians
1958 – 1ST WORLD CUP VICTORY
1962 – 2ND WORLD CUP VICTORY
1970 – BRAZIL BECOMES TRI – 3 RD WIN
1994 – NUMBER FOUR IN USA
2002 – 5TH AND THE DROUGHT BEGINS
THE DAWN OF TIME – SOUTH AMERICA
SECEDES
900 BC – 1500 AD: INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
• Similar to North America, Brazil was originally inhabited by
tribes of indigenous people, called the Tupi or Tupinamba
• Tribes spoke a common language but were constantly at
war with other tribes; practice of cannibalistic rituals on
captured enemies occurred
• Around 1MM Tupi existed around 1500 when the
Portuguese began settling
• Mostly wiped out or assimilated, a few reservations of Tupi
still exist
1500 – SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE SAIL
TO AMERICAS, CONQUER
• In 1494, Treaty of Tordesillas
divided the new world with arbitrary
line: west of the line was Spain’s,
east was Portugal’s; Portugal
unknowingly ended up with much of
Brazilian coast
• In 1500, Portuguese navigator
Pedro Álvares Cabral discovered
Brazil and claimed it for Portugal
1822 – EMPIRE OF BRAZIL
• Brazil declared its
independence from
Portugal and became
the Empire of Brazil
• Pedro I became
Emperor of Brazil; many
rebellions followed
1889 – OLD REPUBLIC
• Brazil became the
Republic of the United
States of Brazil
• Although officially a
democracy, only certain
people could vote
1930 – END OF THE OLD REPUBLIC