Countries: Brazil
Brazil is a?country?in South America bordering?Uruguay?to the south; Argentina, Paraguay, and?Bolivia?to the southwest; Peru?to the west;?Colombia?to the northwest; and Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana?to the north.
The first inhabitants of Brazil were native indigenous “Indians” who lived mainly on the coast and alongside rivers in tribes.
When Portuguese explorers arrived in Brazil, they were met by Tupinamba Indians. The region was inhabited by hundreds of different native tribes, the earliest going back at least 10,000 years in the highlands of Minas Gerais.
Lapado Santo is an archaeological site located in the northern part of the Lagoa Santa site, in the state of Minas Gerais in east-central Brazil. "Lapa” and “Santo” are the Portuguese words for, “rockshelter” and “saint”.
Pedra Furada, meaning pierced rock, is an important collection of over 800 archaeological sites in the state of Piauí, Brazil. These include hundreds of rock paintings dating from circa 12,000 B.C.
Seven Terras Indígenas (TI) (Reservations) are exclusively reserved for isolated people: TI Alto Tarauacá in Acre, TI Hi-Merim? in Amazonas, TI Massaco in Rond?nia, TI Igarapé Omerê in Rond?nia, TI Rio Muqui in Rond?nia, TI Rio Pardo in Mato Grosso and Amazonas, TI Xinane isolados in Acre.
Most of the Indigenous population died due to European diseases and warfare. Brazil's indigenous population is approximately 820,000, which represents only 0.4 percent of the total population in 2020.
The statue of Christ the Redeemer has become a cultural icon of both Rio de Janeiro and Brazil.
While in Brazil's neighboring countries and Central America the civilizations of the Aztecs, Mayas and Incas left behind monuments and inscriptions,?in Brazil comparatively few testimonies of the inhabitants before the arrival of the Europeans have been preserved.
Following the Great Flood (c. 2100 BC), which destroys all of humanity except the family of Noah, Genesis 10 presents a family tree in the form of a branched or segmented genealogy, tracing the descendants of Noah’s three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, and their descendants. Many of these names become future nations, tribes, lands and cities, known to us from elsewhere in the Bible and from extra-biblical sources: Accordingly, this chapter is referred to as the “Table of Nations.”
In the Book of Genesis, the mountains of Ararat is the term used to designate the region in which Noah's Ark comes to rest after the Great Flood (c. 2100 BC), which destroys all of humanity except the family of Noah.
From these eight people …. Noah, his sons and their wives …? the whole earth was populated.
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