History activity, aimed at students in the seventh year of elementary school, with questions developed about Pre-Colonial Brazil.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
1) Analyze the claims about indigenous people found in Brazil by the Portuguese in 1500.
( ) They had a small technological development and, also, the production of surplus was very small.
( ) Some tribes were nomadic and formed communities in which an equality between individuals reigned.
( ) Possessors of a culture and life different from that of the Portuguese, they spread throughout the coast and interior of Brazil.
( ) Men and women participated equally in hunting and fishing tasks, to support the tribe.
2) During the so-called Pre-colonizing Period, the Portuguese occupation, the basic economic activity and the labor employed in it were characterized, respectively, by the
a) Factories, exploitation of pau-brasil and indigenous labor.
b) Hereditary captaincies, cultivation of sugar cane and by the Indian under slavery
c) Factories, exploration of pau-brasil and slave labor
d) Hereditary captaincies, exploitation of pau-brasil and indigenous labor under the guidance of the Jesuits.
e) Factories, sugarcane cultivation and pacified indigenous people.
3) During the Colonial Period, teaching developed influenced by the colonizer's religious culture. About the first educators at this stage, it is correct to state that:
( ) They managed to dissociate evangelization from the Portuguese-Brazilian colonizing process.
( ) Remained oblivious or indifferent to the abuses practiced by slave masters.
( ) Stuck with European ethnocentric ideas, they ignored indigenous languages.
( ) They intended to spread the faith, forming new subjects fearing God and obedient to the king.
( ) The aim was to promote the Catholic Church, keeping the indigenous culture intact.
4) Brazil's insertion in the framework of the mercantilist colonial system was characterized by (a):
( ) The existence of an organized production that enabled, in the first thirty years of the “discovery”, the immediate commercialization of pau-brasil.
( ) Organization of a production system that favored the production of agricultural export products, extractive activities and the consumption of European articles.
( ) Setting up the sugar company, whose defining elements of its structure – large estates, monoculture and slave labor – prevented the Portuguese from achieving great profitability.
( ) Occupation of the Amazon region thanks to the extraction and collection of “drugs from the sertão”, an activity that basically relied on indigenous labor.
( ) Prohibition, by virtue of the signature of the Work of Methuen, on the cultivation of tobacco and cotton to prevent competition with the production of the English colonies.
5) Until 1530, Brazil did not play any important role in plans relating to Portuguese colonial policy. In view of this statement, indicate what would have been the main factors that led the Portuguese metropolis, in the 30s of the 16th century, to develop plans to colonize Brazil.
a) The need to create a consumer market for Portuguese manufactured products and to find precious metal for coining.
b) The economic crisis in the East, due to the end of the pepper monopoly, and the fear of French colonial projects.
c) The Lutheran Reformation and the consequent religious wars that took place in Portugal, which created the need to find economic occupations for Protestants.
d) The existence of a large amount of capital available for the colonization of new areas, as a result of the loans made by the New Christians to the Portuguese Crown.
e) The need for the Catholic Church to expand into the New World, in order to prevent the spread of Protestant “heresy” there.
Per Camila Farias.
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