Portuguese Government

PEARLS OF HISTORY Between the years of 1580 and 1640 Brazil, Portugal and its too much colonies had been under the Spanish domain. In this period, many villages, constructed by means of conceptions had appeared in Brazil that followed the definitive urbanstico style for the king of Spain. It was everything very simple. ' ' cidades' ' they had to be raised next to a river, always of the side that the Sun beats to the rising soon beneficially to influence the health of its inhabitants. Construa a circular square where it would be the church; in return the commerce store and the four directions left streets forming the residential blocks.

At that time the fidiciary offices catholics were called customers. As the traders went every day to the matinal mass, they were in the door to be the first ones to leave and thus to be able to go running to open its store to take care of to the customers. With the time the word started to be used only in the commerce. How many souvenirs had been registered of the habits and customs city dwellers! In Mines the expressions had appeared ' ' from above people ' ' ' ' people of baixo' ' , mordacious references to the rich ones that they inhabited the high ones of the mounts and to the poor persons who if esparramavam for the lowered ones. In Rio De Janeiro ' was said with pride; ' to be Carioca of gema' ' , in aluso to the first inhabitants, who inhabited well in the center. In the Bahia it was grafou expression ' ' stocking mason pataca' ' , therefore, to reconstruct Lisbon after the earthquake of l755, the Portuguese Government emitted Letters of the Treasure that had been vendidas also in Salvador; all bought the such letters for future rescue.