The historical backdrop of Brazil begins with indigenous
individuals in Brazil. Europeans landed in Brazil at the opening of the
sixteenth century. The primary European to colonize what is currently the
Federative Republic of Brazil on the landmass of South America was Pedro
Álvares Cabral on April 22, 1500 under the sponsorship of
the Kingdom of Portugal. From the sixteenth to the mid nineteenth century,
Brazil was a settlement and a piece of the Portuguese Empire. The nation
extended south along the coast and west along the Amazon and other inland
streams from the first 15 donatary captaincy provinces set up on the upper east
Atlantic coast east of the Tordesillas Line of 1494 that isolated the Portuguese space toward the east from the Spanish area
toward the west. The nation's outskirts were just settled in the mid twentieth
century. On September 7, 1822, the
nation pronounced its autonomy from Portugal and it turned into the Empire of
Brazil. A military upset in 1889 built up the First Brazilian Republic. The
nation has seen two fascism periods: the first amid Vargas Era and the second amid the military guideline (1964– 1985) under
Brazilian military government.