Teaching ResourceTeaching ResourceView of downtown Rio de Janeiro and Guanabara Bay. Gold mining was based on slave labor and was closely controlled by the Portuguese authorities. The colony's capital was shifted in 1763 to the port of Rio de Janeiro to facilitate shipping and to better administer the exploitation of this enormous wealth, accelerating the economic decline of the Northeast. Brazil in the Eighteenth century was an agricultural society, where wealth was in the hands of a few landholding families. with the exception of mining towns, most of the population was concentrated along the coastline.Vista do centro da cidade do Rio de Janeiro e da Baía de Guanabara. A mineração do ouro era baseada no trabalho escravo e controlada estri...
Teaching ResourceTeaching Resource6) View of the Pico do Itacolomí mountain with the church of Nossa...
Teaching ResourceTeaching Resource19) Azulejo (tile) depicting court scene in Lisbon. The Portuguese...
Teaching ResourceTeaching ResourceNestled in the mountains of central Minas Gerais is the colonial t...
Teaching ResourceTeaching Resource12) Church of Nossa Senhora do ó em Sabará, Minas Gerais. Gold and...
Teaching ResourceTeaching ResourceVarious colonial constructions in the Pelourinho district in the S...
Teaching ResourceTeaching ResourceView of Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais with the church of Nossa Senhora ...
Teaching ResourceTeaching Resource13) Two black ladies talking in downtown Ouro Preto. Gold and diam...
Teaching ResourceTeaching ResourceStrip mining such as this at the Ferteco iron ore mine near Congon...
Teaching ResourceTeaching ResourceView of the city of Rio de Janeiro and the Guanabara Bay from the ...
Teaching ResourceColonial houses in Ouro Preto (MG). The discovery of major deposits of gold and pre...
Teaching ResourceTeaching ResourceA small chapeI and casarão (bighouse) at a sugarcane engenho (mill...
Teaching ResourceTeaching ResourceRichly adorned gold altar in Tiradentes (Minas Gerais). The mining...
Abandoned engenho near Santo Amaro in the Rec6ncavo region. The international price of sugar oscilla...
Teaching ResourceTeaching Resource5) Nossa Sra. de Conceição church in Sabará. Ignoring the Tordesil...
View of Ouro Preto, former Vila Rica (Minas Gerais). After generations of frustration, gold and prec...
Teaching ResourceTeaching Resource6) View of the Pico do Itacolomí mountain with the church of Nossa...
Teaching ResourceTeaching Resource19) Azulejo (tile) depicting court scene in Lisbon. The Portuguese...
Teaching ResourceTeaching ResourceNestled in the mountains of central Minas Gerais is the colonial t...
Teaching ResourceTeaching Resource12) Church of Nossa Senhora do ó em Sabará, Minas Gerais. Gold and...
Teaching ResourceTeaching ResourceVarious colonial constructions in the Pelourinho district in the S...
Teaching ResourceTeaching ResourceView of Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais with the church of Nossa Senhora ...
Teaching ResourceTeaching Resource13) Two black ladies talking in downtown Ouro Preto. Gold and diam...
Teaching ResourceTeaching ResourceStrip mining such as this at the Ferteco iron ore mine near Congon...
Teaching ResourceTeaching ResourceView of the city of Rio de Janeiro and the Guanabara Bay from the ...
Teaching ResourceColonial houses in Ouro Preto (MG). The discovery of major deposits of gold and pre...
Teaching ResourceTeaching ResourceA small chapeI and casarão (bighouse) at a sugarcane engenho (mill...
Teaching ResourceTeaching ResourceRichly adorned gold altar in Tiradentes (Minas Gerais). The mining...
Abandoned engenho near Santo Amaro in the Rec6ncavo region. The international price of sugar oscilla...
Teaching ResourceTeaching Resource5) Nossa Sra. de Conceição church in Sabará. Ignoring the Tordesil...
View of Ouro Preto, former Vila Rica (Minas Gerais). After generations of frustration, gold and prec...
Teaching ResourceTeaching Resource6) View of the Pico do Itacolomí mountain with the church of Nossa...
Teaching ResourceTeaching Resource19) Azulejo (tile) depicting court scene in Lisbon. The Portuguese...
Teaching ResourceTeaching ResourceNestled in the mountains of central Minas Gerais is the colonial t...