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History of Brazil in maps
Brazil as it appears in 5 interactive history atlases, from 1750 to 2015: Brazil. Each era below lists who ruled the land and when control changed, linked to the dated map that shows it.
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What was Brazil before it was Brazil? Below, every era of this land in the Maps of History atlases — who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed — each line linked to the dated map that shows it. Modern borders stand in as an honest approximation; every atlas says so on the map itself.
Brazil (Portuguese to 1822) · Industrial Revolution
Independent from 1822 and still a slave society until 1888. Brazil’s coffee plantations in the Paraíba valley and São Paulo were worked by enslaved Africans to supply the cafés and kitchens of industrial Europe and North America, and after abolition European immigrants replaced them. Railways built with British capital carried the coffee to the ports.
| Colony or dependency — the opening position | |
| Agrarian economy |
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Brazil · Age of Revolutions
The age’s counter-case: a colony that became a kingdom’s seat (court in Rio, 1808), then an independent empire (1822) by a prince’s proclamation — near-bloodless, monarchical, and slaveholding (until 1888, the hemisphere’s last). Stability purchased by leaving the age’s two great questions — sovereignty of the people, freedom of the enslaved — deliberately unasked.
| Colonial possessions — the opening position | |
| Republics & revolutionary states |
AGE OF REVOLUTIONS: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Brazil · WWI
| The Entente & Allies — the opening position | |
| The Entente & Allies |
Brazil · Cold War
| US-aligned states — the opening position |
COLD WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Brazil · Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution
| Right won in law — the opening position | |
| No reform yet / outside this story | |
| Right won in law |
FEMINISM AND THE TUNISIAN REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
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