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The first entirely Iranian empire in recorded history.
Legend translation:
Types of Bandeiras
Green line - Natives capture expeditions (for enslavement)
Brown line - Mines searching expeditions
Red Line - “Contract Sertanism” (hired guns to clear an inland area from native or African presence)
Red dot - Palmares region (largest free black settlement in the Americas, destroyed in the Bandeiras)
Black Crosses - Missions (Jesuit settlements for conversion of indigenous peoples, destroyed by the Bandeiras
Numbers: Names of the captains of each expedition
Source: @worldwide_map