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Portuguese Brazilian Frontier Expansion

Type Event Region Brazil Time 1660–1669

In the 1660s, Portuguese colonists and bandeirantes expanded through the Amazon basin, interior gold belts, and southern frontier via slave raiding, …

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  1. 1660–1669interior of Minas Gerais and São Paulo · Minas GeraisSão Paulo bandeirante groups penetrated deep into the interior in search of gold and indigenous labor, pushing westward and northward and laying the foundation for later large-scale gold mining and colonial settlement.
  2. 1665–1669Amazon River basin · AmazonPortugal added mission stations and trading posts in the lower Amazon, contesting control of the basin with Spanish and Dutch powers, while frontier friction and the slave trade intensified in tandem.

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