Independence of Brazil The independence of Brazil was not achieved through violent wars as with Spanish colonies, but rather through an unprecedented move not only in the history of Americas but in the history of colonial exploration. The Portuguese monarch had moved the throne to Brazil, to escape from the dangers of Napoleonic wars. Never before had a European monarch even set foot in ... America was beginning to feel the influence of Enlightenment ideas, just as other European colonies in the Americas. The seventeenth century saw an intellectual revolution in Europe, but especially in Fran...

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