Is the history in your country interesting and important? Well, if you want to know mine, pay attention and you will know. Another word for history is the past. The past is a non-material thing. History is an idea. History is what we know for sure of what has happened time ago. It could even be one second ago, but it will still be history. Things that are and aren’t important are imprinted on the pages of history.

In past times, countless events passed by, all of them defined at least a bit of the future of this planet. History started thousands of years before Christ, events like heroes and saviors and deaths and all sorts of things that can naturally happen ,happened. The problem is that history is time, we can’t touch time, and that is what brings all these mysteries to this world. Let’s thank God that there are people all around the world.            

I am going to talk about two important parts of Brazilian history-slavery and the presidents. First, slavery began in the mid 1600s. The first slaves were brought to Brazil into the farms where coffee and other important crops were farmed. Both the United States and Brazil, brought many African slaves, but in Brazil, it was worse. It started earlier, it took longer to end, and Brazil imported two or three times more slaves than the US. In the early 17^th century, when the slavery of America was starting, the amount of Africans to Europeans was a lot smaller in the United States than in Brazil. There, it was happening for more than one hundred years!  Slavery in Brazil was brutal! In the 1690s, gold was discovered in Minas Gerais. Guess who were the people digging, slaves. They dug and dug and only found little before they died of thirst and hunger. I wouldn’t ever do that to the poor slaves.

After clearing up that sadness, let’s come to the presidents.Now, the presidents aren’t sad, the opposite, very pleasant. In 1954, Juscelino Kubitschek was very important for Brazil. He built Brazil’s capital city, Brazilia that nowadays is the most visited city in Brazil. It is also an historical city. It is positioned right in the middle of Brazil in the state of Goiás. Many presidents from countries nearby have met the president of Brazil. Well, the other president is Itamar Franco who introduced the real (our unit of money) to Brazil. Before the real came the réu, cruzeiro, cruzeiro novo cruzado, cruzado novo, cruzeiro, cruzeiro real then Itamar Franco came up with the real. The most valuable of all the coins in the history of Brazil. So now you may tell your 6^th grade teacher that you know about slavery of Brazil and two important presidents, one that created the real!

--TM