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good morning and welcome back to plan adult history today we are going to discuss what if brazil was a great power brazil is a big country and it's actually the biggest country of south america and if we look at the world map we can clearly see that not only is brazil big but they also have a big ocean around them they are having no big neighbors well they are far away from most war zones and conflicts that exist in our timeline and they are actually in a very good geographic position well most hots are firing four players they will surely understand what i mean that yeah south america is in a sense boring i mean in the sense of conflicts but what in this case south america won't be that boring but still brazil has an enormous landmass many resources a lot of water different landscapes the amazonas jungle of course natural beauties and yet it is not a powerful country sure corruption can be stated as the main reason but i think we have to look even further brazil also has a huge population and funnily enough almost half of south america's population speaks portuguese yes that's how big brazil actually is we have to put this into numbers the population number is thus not the issue what's done the issue well while resource rich with coffee cotton and sugar cane plantations only a small amount of individuals they were educated in brazil and well there were eight times as many african slaves brought to brazil as they were in the as a result the cheap expandable yeah brazilian plantation owners focused less on cultivation a community of slaves via family and childbirth and more on further importation which in return this incentivized the industrialization of brazil until several decades after the independence if we look back brazil had no real industries and industrialized very late and had slavery for a long long time thus there was no need