Portugal colonized Brazil for over 300 years, profoundly shaping Brazil's culture, language, religion, and economy. Portugal established Portuguese as Brazil's dominant language and spread Christianity throughout Brazil. The colonization also led to the growth of the slave trade as Portuguese colonists developed large sugar plantations and mines, importing African slaves as laborers. When Brazil gained independence from Portugal in 1822, it had built close economic and cultural ties with its former colonizer through trade and shared heritage.

1. Portugal and Brazil
Relations
By: Kate Morimoto and Markus Mui

2. History of Colonial
Relations

3. History of Colonial
Relations

4. How the Colonizer
affected the Colonized

5. Language

6. Religion in Portugal And Brazil

7. Sports

8. Slavery

9. Architecture

10. Flags

11. How the Colonized
affected the Colonizer

12. Power

13. Export

14. Trade

15. What happens when
one country tries to
control another?

16. War

17. Religion and Language

18. Trade

19. Picture Sources
Portugal coat of arms and flag: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Empire
Brazil flag: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil
Christ the Redeeme: http://www.flickr.com/photos/exfordy/128576391/
The Metropolitan Cathedral of Brasilia: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcdemoura/5846154075/
Saint Jeronimos Monastery: http://www.flickr.com/photos/archer10/2218965178/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Brazil National Team Group photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/galaxyfm/227075097/
Portugal soccer player: http://www.flickr.com/photos/galaxyfm/226886978/
Brazil Coat of arms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Brazil.svg
Sugarcane: http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-2554555453
Soldier with peach sign on his hand: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aheram/283162678/
Silk Road Map: http://www.flickr.com/photos/14589121@N00/5447446847/
Manueline Style: http://www.flickr.com/photos/grumbler/301345734/in/photostream/
Slaves: http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulosacramento/218195061/
Pau-Brasil tree: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mauroguanandi/2531212607/
Sugarcane field: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweeteralternative/4579461966/

20. Website Sources
"Brazil-Portugal Relations." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia. Web. 27 Sept. 2011. <http://
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21. Book Sources
Richard, Christopher, and Leslie Jermyn. Brazil. New York: Benchmark, 2002. Print.
Dicks, Brian. Focus on Brazil. London: Evans Bros., 1995. Print.
Heale, Jay. Portugal. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1995. Print.