This question keeps my girlfriend up at night
>having a gf stay up late at night going down rabbit holes of informationman mine just reads or does work
>>222388432faustian spirit
>>222388432Beware the shitzillian with atrocious English who will hop into your thread and post a shitload of incomprehensible babble
>>222388432Keeping it as simple as possible, the portuguese kind died while leaving no clear sucessor, so Spain took over. Meaning their colonies in the americas were merged and the tordesillas didn't meant much anymore. So colonials in Brazil just went on a frenzy and claimed the most land they could grab, when Portugal broke away from spanish rule the colony in Brazil already controled about 40% of south america.
>hhhmmmmm Brazil, you're growing so big there. Why don't I just take care of that for you