The purpose of this paper is to discuss the geographical concepts of Brazil such as the culture, history and its importance, language, trade, etc and how they compare to those of the United States. ... Brazil borders on ten other Latin American countries. ... Portuguese settlers developed vast sugarcane estates in the Bahia region, and for one hundred and fifty years these estates were in the world's main source of sugar. ... It borders all Latin American countries except Chile and Ecuador. ... With such a diverse heritage, Bryce Jenkins states that Brazil is considered by many history...

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It is no accident that the Yoruba cultural influence spread across the Atlantic to the Americas. European slave hunters violently captured and marched untold millions of Africans to their demise on over crowded slave ships bound for the Americas. Slave wars launched by the kingdom of Dahomey against some of the Yoruba kingdoms, and slave wars between the Yoruba's themselves made war casualty Africans available for transportation to the Americas. ... In recent years, availability of attainable air travel has enabled African Americans to go back to the essence from which this great culture ...

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