Colonial Brazil [SEP] dissolved or abolished
Colonial Brazil
Colonial Brazil () comprises the period from 1500, with the arrival of the Portuguese, until 1815, when Brazil was elevated to a kingdom in union with Portugal as the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves.
During the early 300 years of Brazilian colonial history, the economic exploitation of the territory was based first on brazilwood ("pau brazil") extraction (16th century), which gave the territory its name; sugar production (16th–18th centuries); and finally on gold and diamond
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History Colonial history.
On 27th Sep 1650, Jacques du Parquet bought Grenada from the Compagnie des Iles de l'Amerique, which was dissolved, for the equivalent of £1160. In 1657, Jacques du Parquet sold Grenada to the Comte de Cerrillac for the equivalent of £1890. In 1664, King Louis XIV bought out the independent island owners and established the French West India Company. In 1674 the French West India Company was dissolved. Proprietary rule ended in Grenada, which became a French crown colony.
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