Bandeirantes
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Bandeirantes were frontiersmen and explorers in Colonial Brazil who, from the early 16th century, participated in inland expeditions to find precious metals and enslave indigenous peoples. They played
Domingos Jorge Velho and Antônio F. de Abreu, by Benedito Calixto
Departure of the bandeirantes from Porto Feliz for an expedition to the Brazilian interior
Painting by Jean-Baptiste Debret depicting bandeiras enslaving Guaraní people in the Brazilian interior
A battle between the militia of Mogi das Cruzes and the Botocudos
Treaty of Tordesillas
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The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in Tordesillas, Spain, on 7 June 1494, and ratified in Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Cr
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…peoples. They played a major role in expanding Brazil's borders to its approximate modern-day limits, beyond the boundaries demarcated by the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas. Most bandeirantes hailed from São Paulo, then a small village in the Captaincy of São Vicente from 1534 to 1709 and later the Captaincy of São Paulo…
Front page of the Portuguese-owned treaty; this page is written in Spanish
The convent in Setúbal, where the Portuguese king John II ratified the treaty in 1494.
Various Spanish and Portuguese reckonings of the Tordesillas line (1495–1545) marked along the Brazilian coast, from Harrisse