| 1 | A Portuguese man visited Brazil and was amazed by what he saw. | |
| 2 | The Portuguese has shed twice as many in the same time. | |
| 3 | The Portuguese conquered Malacca in 1511 when China was under Han' s Ming Dynasty. | |
| 4 | They were refugees from the Brazilian port of Recife, which the Portuguese had just captured from the Dutch. | |
| 5 | In the 17th century, the Dutch emerged as the most powerful of the Europeans, ousting the Spanish and Portuguese. |