610 Q2 Flashcards
The parts of the carnauba palm that are useful to the Brazilians:
leaves, roots, trunks, stems, fruit, wax, and sap
Sugar plantations began in Brazil’s what region in 1960?
northeast
Rubber trees got their name from where?
the way their sap removed pencil marks
In Brazil, the class of a person is mostly based on that persons what?
Social and Financial Standing
Traders seeking to take brazilwood to take to Europe and made permanent settlements in Brazil were from where?
Portuguese
Rubber trees grow in what region of Brazil?
Amazonia
Brazilian slaves were set free when?
When slave records were burned
Brazil leads the world in what production?
Sugar and coffee
Source of a bright red dye?
Brazilwood
Brazil’s boom-bust cycles:
Result from its dependence on selling to other countries
When prices fell and little money came in, Brazil experienced a what?
Bust
In 1960 the capital of Brazil was what?
moved from Rio de Janerio to Brasilia
Most of Brazil’s Indians live in which region?
Amazonia
The boom ended in Brazil when what plantations started in Asia?
Rubber plantations
Ditch or aqueduct
bica