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This image depicts the map of Dutch Brazil, illustrating the territory controlled by the Dutch from 1630 to 1654 during their colonial expansion in South America. Catalan Extensió del Brasil Neerlandès
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In the 1630s, Brazil provided 80% of the sugar sold in London, while it only provided 10% by 1690. [32] The Portuguese colony of Brazil did not recover economically until the discovery of gold in southern Brazil during the 18th century. [33] The Dutch period in Brazil was "a historical parenthesis with few lasting traces" in the social sphere. [34]
The boom and bust of the economic cycles were linked to export products. Brazil's sugar age, with the development of plantation slavery, merchants serving as middle men between production sites, Brazilian ports, and Europe was undermined by the growth of the sugar industry in the Caribbean on islands that European powers seized from Spain.
Nicolaes Visscher's map shows the siege of Olinda and Recife in 1630. [1] The Dutch invasions in Brazil, ordered by the Dutch West India Company (WIC), occurred during the 17th century. [2] Considered the biggest political-military conflict in the colony, the invasions were centered on the control of sugar and slave supply sources.
Tabula Peutingeriana (section of a modern facsimile), top to bottom: Dalmatian coast, Adriatic Sea, southern Italy, Sicily, African Mediterranean coast. Tabula Peutingeriana (Latin for 'The Peutinger Map'), also referred to as Peutinger's Tabula, [1] Peutinger tables [2] or Peutinger Table, is an illustrated itinerarium (ancient Roman road map) showing the layout of the cursus publicus, the ...
Brazil: The Once and Future Country (2nd ed. 1998), an interpretive synthesis of Brazil's history. Fausto, Boris, and Arthur Brakel. A Concise History of Brazil (Cambridge Concise Histories) (2nd ed. 2014) excerpt and text search; Garfield, Seth. In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region. Durham: Duke ...
In classical antiquity, Europe was assumed to cover the quarter of the globe north of the Mediterranean, an arrangement that was adhered to in medieval T and O maps. Ptolemy's world map of the 2nd century already had a reasonably precise description of southern and western Europe, but was unaware of particulars of northern and eastern Europe.