SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
COLONIES OF FRANCE ENGLAND
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Portuguese nobles who were given control of the land and its distribution in the new world
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Portuguese nobility who conquered land in the new world and made the natives their slaves
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Portuguese nobles who were given some control of the land
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Catholic clergy who was given control over the decision making process in the colony
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Detailed explanation-1: -Normally, the donatário was the recipient of a captaincy, a territorial division and land grant, within Portuguese colonies. It was an effective administrative system that ceded certain rights and responsibilities to the donatário, facilitating the settlement of unpopulated places with little cost to the Crown.
Detailed explanation-2: -Each captaincy consisted of a portion of land from 25 to 60 or more leagues (75 to 180 or more miles) wide along the Brazilian coast and extending inland to the line (between 48° and 49° west of Greenwich) established by the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), which divided Portuguese and Spanish colonial possessions.
Detailed explanation-3: -Beginning in the early 16th century, the Portuguese monarchy used proprietorships or captaincies-land grants with extensive governing privileges-as a tool to colonize new lands.
Detailed explanation-4: -Brazil’s first colonizers were met by Tupinamba Indians, one group in the vast array of the continent’s native population.