While following the same sea route as Vasco da Gama across the Atlantic Ocean around the "Cape of Good Hope", in the second voyage to India in 1500, the Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral reached the Brazilian coast.
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And from that time the Portuguese influence had expanded to the New World as well.
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Sailing westward, on April 22, 1500 Pedro Álvares Cabral sighted land. He named it the "Island of the True Cross" and took formal possession of the new territory on behalf of the King of Portugal.
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And that's why maps of the region showed Portugal as ruler of an expanded land with vaguely defined boundaries meant to serve as an intermediate strategic point on the long way from Europe to the "Cape of Good Hope" and the Indian Ocean.
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On their journey of exploration and discovery, aware of the resistance to European infiltration, the Portuguese most often based their settlements on nearby coastal islands and at coastal ports.
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First in the Caribbean and then in New Spain and Peru, they captured most of the territory of South America and laid the grounds of the Spanish Empire.
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In 1494, the "Tordesillas Treaty" between Portugal and Spain established an imaginary line that would separate the lands of the New World which would belong to Portugal on the east and to Spain on the west.
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He made this discovery while sailing to Brazil, in 1501, where he explored the rest of the Brazilian coastline for the King of Portugal. America as a whole was named after him.
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Rio de Janeiro also greatly benefited from reforms imposed on Brazil in the 18th century by Portuguese Prime Minister Marquês de Pombal, reserving the diamond mines as a Royal monopoly, and moving the capital of Brazil from Bahia to Rio in 1763.
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The marvelous city Rio de Janeiro in Brazil is worldwide known for its extraordinary natural beauty, and also for the great architectural buildings, many of them dating back to the Portuguese Empire of Brazil, when Rio was the capital city.
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