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In a recurring theme in the Age of Discovery, European explorer 'discovers' new land teeming with Indians. Cabral pokes around Brazil while lost and looking for India.
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Portuguese adventurer Joao Ramalho marries a native Tibirican princess, beginning a theme of regular intermarriage between conquerors and conquered.
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The order of the Society of Jesus, better known as the Jesuits, establish a mission system throughout Brazil in attempts to convert natives to Catholicism
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King Sebastian I nominally bans the enslavement of native Indians, though the trend continues for centuries.
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Marques De Pombal decrees the Jesuits removed from all Portuguese lands. While not ideal and acting as smallpox factories for the natives, the missions did attempt to provide stability and protection for the Amerindian population.
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