摘要：As we all learn at the Brazilian schools, Portuguese navigators arrived in Brazil in the year 1500. The event became known as Descobrimento do Brasil (Discovery of Brazil) and has been subject to controversies (did they plan it? did it happen by chance?) and disputes (who would have preceded them? the Spanish? the French? the Africans?). What is still being taught, anyway, is that the fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral made the first official contact between Portugal and the new land at 16º° South (presently Porto Seguro, Bahia), marked it as King’s possession and named it Terra de Santa Cruz. (...)
