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“Bolivia 2009.” Constituteproject. n.p, n.d. Web. 4 September 2014.
“Brazil 1988 (rev. 2014).” Constituteproject. n.p, n.d. Web. 4 September 2014.
Burns, E. Bradford. Latin America A Concise Interpretive History. 6th ed. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1994. Print.
Encomienda/Aldeia System
Queen Isabella I (1451-1504)
Mulattoes -> Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Brazil
Mestizos -> Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia, and Paraguay
Mazombos ->traditional social elites; whites born in Brazil
Reinois -> whites born in Portugal
“Resentment of the overseas metropolitan exploitation of the colonies; and growing complaints of excessive taxes, restrictions, and monopolies all widened the gap between the colonials and the Iberians” (Burns 72).
Flag of "The Conspiracy of the Tailors
“In addition to its limited economic role, Brazil served strategically for many decades as the guardian of the western flank of the prized route of the Orient. So long as Portugal held a monopoly over that seaborne trade, Brazil received only minimal attention” (Burns 14).
What is "mercantilism?"
"[Brazilian elites] desire to enter the capitalist marketplace [...] and the imperial, mercantilist, and monopolistic policies [...] charted a course of conflict that prompted the exercise of greater royal control" (Burns 64).
Why?
colonial schools
Absolutism in Portugal
Pombal expelling the Jesuits
" [...] the system proved to be one more device of the landowners to exploit the labor of the Indians" (Burns 35).