PORTUGUESE EMPIRE IN THE

AMERICASStruggle & Survival

•Antonio de GouveiaTime: 1528-1580

Place: Terceira, Azores Islands: Portugal

Gender: Male

Occupation: Azorean priest

Big city of Lisbon with around 100,000 people, 10,000 of them slaves. Around 2,000

shipped entered The Lisbon ports.

•Great place to shop for exotic items.

Antonio was a renaissance adventurer.

•He was thought of being disgusting, a “magician”, and a gold priest.

•A priest who found gold in mines.

•Sub deacon to deacon to part of holy priesthood in the chapel of St. Anne.

•Shipwrecked once, although it was against the church for priests too

practice that field of work, he routed to medicine practice to earn living.

•Accused of magical power to make people crazy, having a spear the cured

injuries, turning invisible, and having strong evil powers from a pact with the

devil.

•After leaving jail with bail he went with Jesuits, but he left them. He was

deported to an island. He searched for Indian slaves and treated them badly.

•He spend a life punctured by mishap in a time of looser humanism of the early

16th century

Catarina De Monte Sinay 1680-1758

Place: Bahia Brazil

Group: Nunnery

Gender: Female

Occupation: Nun and Entrepreneur

Portuguese Empire in the

Americas,• Struggle & Survival

•Young Catarina became Madre Catarina

•splendid colorful ceremony- her spiritual wedding being a “bride of Christ”

•Bahia was divided in to a lower and upper segment. The upper was formal core of the colony

with the royal treasury, high court, officers of municipal council, and the governor’s palace. On

the side was the brotherhood of Misercordia and other cathedral palaces and mansions.

•Bahia used to make its major profit from the sugar market. It had become a tri-continental

trade between Europe and Africa.

•She had a sense of humility and enjoyed her participation in the ceremonies and rituals

where she felt her soul purified of its guilt.

•She was guided my Madre Victoria who seemed to cure people from smallpox with miracles.

•She amassed large wealth with her talent for business. She gave out loans and profited from

the interest. She rented out homes and received a good yearly income. She maintained 12

slaves. She sold tasty pastries. She spent a lot of money of adorning cathedrals.

•Her business was also violation of the church law. It’s controversial so think of a nun as a

business woman.

•Indian slaves lived with hunger, disease, & harsh discipline

•She was born in a tribe of traders and warriors, the Manao.

•The Manao traded with foreigners with revolutionary

weapons, the steel weapons.

•By 1730, Manao power broke. They worked as guides &

canoemen.

•Fransica’s was property of the Chief.

•As she grew up, she was sent to be slave for Portuguese

Para.

•She served as slave most of her life, she petitioned to be a free

person to authorities.

•She managed to survive and retain some spirit about her life and

she may have survived epidemic of small pox.

•She was slave and de-humanized but she made a mark other

•Fransiscatime: 1700-1750

•Place: Amazonia

•Group: Amazonian tribe; Manao

•Gender: Female

•Occupation: Slave

• Struggle & Survival

Portuguese Empire in the

Americas,

Portugal

Portugal was inhabited by Neanderthals and then by Homo sapiens

Celts invaded Portugal from central Europe and formed different

ethnic groups

First Roman invasion occurred in 219 B.C.

200 years later almost all of the peninsula was of the Roman

Empire

Then in early 5th century, Germanic tribes invaded the peninsula

They conquered all of the Iberian Peninsula

Around 711, Islamic Moors from North Africa invaded the Iberian

Peninsula.

They re-conquered their lands from the Moors.

In 868, Count Vimara Peres re-conquered the region between the

rivers Minho and Duoro, the country was then known as Portugal.

From 1249 to 1250 the southernmost region, was finally re-

Discoveries & Portuguese

Empire

15th and 16th centuries, Portugal was a major European power

Prince Henry the Navigator assisted Portugal in new discoveries of new lands

been the leading patron of all maritime exploration by Portugal up to that time

explorations had shown that profits could be made in trade

Portugal officially rejected Christopher Columbus's idea of reaching India form the west.

Dispute resulted in a treaty of Tordesillas in 1494. It divided the undiscovered world equally between the Spanish and Portuguese.

all lands to the east belonging to Portugal and all lands to the west to Spain.

Cape of Good Hope, the finding of the route to India was found and trade with the east was now accessible.

Portuguese became the first civilization to fully start the process we know today as globalization.

The Portuguese established their base in the "Spice Islands" on the island of Ambon, they visited Canton in 1517 and opened up

Portuguese

end of the 15th century Portugal expelled some local Jews

many Jews were forcibly converted to Catholicism

Spanish and Portuguese Empires came under a single rule

did not, however,

After the dissolution of the Iberian Union in 1640, Portugal

would reestablish its authority over some lost territories

end resistance to Spanish rule

Portugal had substantially attained its independence in

1640, the Spanish continued to try to reassert their control for

the next twenty-eight years

accepting Portuguese independence in 1668.