History Activity, aimed at students in the seventh year of elementary school, with questions about the history of Brazil.
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Read the following text:
Differently from the intruders from São Paulo, the Northeastern cattle raisers entered not the forests and flooded areas, but the vast expanses of land far from the fertile coast. They did it quietly. They had been doing it, moreover, since the assembly of the first mills. In 1549, with the installation of the general government, the slow expansion of cattle raising in the Northeast began. One of the emblematic figures of this form of conquest of the sertão was the Portuguese Garcia d'Ávila, who, having received some pasture land in the fields of Itapoã from the hands of Governor Tomé de Souza, he soon extended them to the inlet of Tatuapara, where he erected a building with medieval features: The house of Tower. Within a few years he had become one of the richest men in Bahia. Slowly, huge and silent Bahian herds covered leagues and leagues of the territory Brazil, spreading between what is now Piauí and the sources of the São Francisco River in Minas General.
The sertão, meaning at the time the lands separated from the coast, was the stage for this new occupation. Life there was not easy. Everyday life unfolded under the scorching sun and arid soil. From August to December, the lack of water was so great that many people hardly had anything to drink. Along with the drought came supply crises. Almost nothing bloomed or grew. The regularity of droughts was appalling: years such as 1660, 1671, 1673 or 1735 left their marks. Concerned, the authorities noted in official correspondence: “There has been a total lack of water in this captaincy and in the entire state for two years, because of which they destroyed the plants and did not produce the crops, and there is a great lack of meat and flour.” Eating difficulties in other records, such as that of 1697, in which a priest he wrote about the backwoodsmen: “these men only eat beef with dairy products and some honey that they draw from the sticks” the meat ordinarily is roasted, because there are no pans in which bake yourself. They drink water from wells and lakes that are always cloudy and very messy. The air is very thick and unhealthy. These miserable men live on this luck, wearing hides and looking like tapuias. Sertaneja poverty was a real fact, although the men's struggle to adapt to the environment escaped the report of the European priest. Just to give just a few examples, consider the use of vegetable fibers replacing fabrics to wear, in hammocks. caroá fibers, in the wild menu of armadillo or peba meat, the paçoca of corned beef with flour and brown sugar.
DEL PRIORE, Mary and VENANCIO, Renato. A brief history of Brazil. São Paulo: Editora Planeta do Brasil, 2010. http://resumodaobra.com/mary-del-priore-renato-venancio-brasil-sertanejo/adaptado
1) What is the main subject covered in the text above?
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2) According to the text, what was the main objective of occupying the lands in the interior?
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3) Explain how this occupation occurred. Transcript sentences from the text that mention this process.
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4) Explain how the living conditions of the people living in the colony were.
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5) Analyze the following sentence:
“The sertanejo is above all a fort”.
This phrase is part of the work Os sertões, by the writer Euclides da Cunha (1866-1909).
List this quote with information in the text that describes the adaptability of the inhabitants of the sertão.
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By Rosiane Fernandes Silva – Graduated in Letters
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