HIST 309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Bandeirantes, Encomienda
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Development started slowly, jesuits arrived, encomanderos mixed with natives mestizo encomienda system. Portuguese coming into the interior of brazil brazilians pushed to the border with spanish. America; finding gold inside brazil (bandeirantes) trying to find indigenous peoples to enslave. Spanish only if they rebelled; portugal always allowed; created a lot of tension jesuits fought the bandeirantes and other brazilians capturing natives. Uruguay became a buffer zone between the two empires contains characters belonging to all four groups; they are all founding cities. Tensions kept growing warfare between the two powers not official but there were many conflicts between the colonisers on the ground. War of spanish succession: spain and france vs. portugal netherlands england and holy roman. Treaty of madrid in 1750; new treaty of tordesillas new line to distinguish the portuguese colony from the spanish almost the modern border of brazil people unhappy with the decision.