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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by Brazil the [Brazil landscape]

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best place to enjoy a carnival seriously the Sahara Desert tried to rebrand [People dancing on Sahara Desert]

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itself a few years ago and it wasn't pretty...

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okay everyone hydrated great.. here's todays question Toponyms in Brazil

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have Portuguese origins because what and here are the potential answers....

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when we're thinking about new world toponyms aka

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place names it's always helpful to think about the history of those places as we [Nurse with the planet Earth]

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know the new world is the Americas and the history of the Americas is very

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deeply tied to colonialism otherwise known as the European tradition of

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arriving somewhere and then taking a whole bunch of stuff that they liked [Man collecting apples from tree]

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while the Spanish conquered most of Latin America so naturally we find a lot

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of Spanish toponyms there however Brazil was conquered by Portugal not Spain

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what's more it's important to remember that the naming of places has a lot more [Portuguese soldiers carrying Portugal flag]

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to do with who did the conquering with their guns and their flags than with any

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kind of cultural or religious solidarity with those conquerors so the answer that

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best captures all that well it's C - Brazil is conquered by Portugal and

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reflects this colonial heritage in its toponyms, so if you go to Brazil you'll

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probably pick up a few words in Portuguese though if you spend your entire [Boy reading Portuguese to English dictionary]

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trip in the library you might be vacationing incorrectly

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