While the ostensible motivation for Spanish missionization in the Americas was religious conversion, missions were also critical to the expansion of European economic institutions in the sixteenth thr
Abstract Since the colonial period, commercial activities have always been present in Goiás and even as subsidiary activities, they contributed to the economic dynamics of the Captaincy. In this histo
ABSTRACT In 1649, the Portuguese Government established the General Trade Company of Brazil under the protection of King João IV. The original plan was to engage the most active traders at that time t
