Brazilian Wonders Collection

I’m doing the “Mod do Brasil” (Mod of Brazil), just using leaderheads, units and wonders from Brazil. Here come some of these wonders! I did all these creations and it is just the beginning, I have to post new ones soon.




Carnaval: The Brazilians believe them Carnival is the biggest party of all World: for one week the country stops to dance the rhythmic of Samba in every city of the entire nation. Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Salvador and Recife are the main centers of this huge (and sometimes unbelievable to foreign visitants) party. The Carnival beginning in Europe and when it has been brought to Brazil it incorporated elements of the African and Native American cultures, resulting in this big party that Brazil has today, every year next of Western Holyday.
Download: http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/Carvanal.zip

Maracanã: Maracanã is the biggest soccer stadium ever built in the World. This sport is the most popular in the planet and the biggest passion of Brazilian people. This love is so intense that, when the Main Team of this country plays a match in the World Cup, Brazil stops to watch the game. I'm Brazilian, and I can truely say that there are no symbols here that stimulate our nationalism. But when our team (also called Seleção Brasileira or Seleção Canarinho) plays, there's no people more nationalist than the Brazilian people. This stadium lies in Rio de Janeiro, its capacity is up to 200.000 supporters and it was built in 1950 World Cup, which was played in Brazil. In this Cup happened the biggest disaster in the history of Brazilian Soccer Team: we were defeated by Uruguay in the final match game, in Maracanã. Yes, Brazil lost the final game of the World Cup played at home. That happening was so appalling to the country that industrial activity decreased for weeks because the people were very depressed.
Download: http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads8/Maracana.zip

Matriz de Congonhas Aleijadinho is the sculptor of the statues around the Matrix Church of Congonhas do Campo, in Minas Gerais State, Brazil. They were sculpted in soap stone in the XVIII century, when this area had turned into the centre of the colony (due to the Gold Rush). The statues in real size were made in Barroco style and represented the 12 prophets and a passage of the Christian Bible: it's an amazing view to tourists. One fact that makes this sculpture one of the most important of the entire world: this dozen of real size statues were sculpted by a man that DID NOT have hands. Yes, it's really astonishing…
Download: http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads7/congonhas.zip

Primeira Missa Primeira Missa means "First Cult" in Portuguese and shows the first Christian cult that happened in Brazil. Today, the country is the larger country in number of Catholics in the World. This cult was the first act that has tried to convert Native Americans in Christians. And this convertation process was part of process that has decimated almost all the Native population in Brazilian lands. The first Christian cult in Brazil was celebrated by Frei Henrique de Coimbra in the same week that Pedro Álvares Cabral has arrived in the New World. In the next years the process of conversation had grew up and killed that ones that has denied to join in the religion of them new masters.
Download: http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads8/PrimeiraMissa.zip

Viajem de Cabral: Viajem de Cabral means Pedro Álvares Cabral Voyage, the command of the first Europeans that have been in Brazil.
Download: http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/ViajemCabral.zip

Academia Militar Duque de Caxias: Duque de Caxias was one of the most important military leaders of Brazil and he was the main commandant of this country in the Paraguay War, training great part of the national troops that didn't have any military training.
Download: http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/AcademiaCaxias.zip

Arte da Guerra de Cunhambebe: he Tupi were a militaristic civilization that had many of the best military leaders of Brazil in the time pre-colonial and in the beginning of the colonization. These leaders fought against the Portuguese and other Europeans or backing them and fought among the rival groups, the Tupinambá and Tupinikin were examples. Cacique Cunhambebe was one of the main Tupi leaders, but other great military leaders also exceed as Araribóia, Aimberê, Pindobuçu, Coaquira, Jagoanharó, Araraí, Parabuçu, Sepé-Tiaraju, Filipe Camarão, Zorobabê, Inácio Abiaru and André Guacarari. One of the biggest victories of a Tupi group was against the Portuguese, when Cunhambebe forces using bows and canoes defeat a force that uses powder weapons and caravels.
Download: http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/GuerraCunhambebe.zip

Cemitério Tupinambá: The Tupi used to put into the earth them deaths in the main circle of them tribes (settlements).
Download: http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/CemiterioTupinamba.zip

Diretas Já: A good translation to the slogan "Diretas Já" is "I want vote for President", a slogan created by the opposition party MDB of the Military Dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1986). The army has taken the power in Brazil fearing a Communist Gulp backed by URSS and started one of the bloodiest periods of the Brazilian history. The climate of the Cold War did a hunt for communists, but not only communists were murdered, tortured or arrested in that time, but every one who wanted to do opposition to this dictatorship or people who was in the wrong place in the wrong time. At the same time other dictatorships have started in Latin America and rich countries of the Capitalist Side of the Cold War supported these dictatorships with money, intelligence work, military training and other stuffs seeing them like an opportunity to stop the advance of Communism in the continent. In 1986 the politician pressure supported by the people mob around the country marked the end of this bloody and not necessary period.
Download: http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/DiretasJa.zip

Oca Central de Tupinambá: Tupinambá is the name of one of the main groups of the Tupi root, the Native American race that has inhabited the Brazilian coast before the Europeans arrived. Tupinambá is also the name of the main tribe (the Native American city) of the sounther Tupinambá territory in the present boarders of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro states. This city was the headquarter of the Tupinambá in the war against the Portuguese and the Tupininkin, another Tupi group, in the XVI century.
The French also fought this war backing the Cacique Cunhambebe forces, the main leader of Tupinambá. As the result of this war, named "Guerra dos Tamoios", the Tupinambá were conquered and the last survivors ran away to the forests of the interior of the colony.
Download: http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/OcaCentral.zip

Biblioteca Dom Pedro II: In the Kingdom of Dom Pedro II (1841-1889) the Emperor stimulated the arts.
Download: http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/BibliotecaDomPedro.zip

Construção de Brasília: Brasília was built by the President Juscelino Kubitschek, the construction has started in 1955 and finished in 1960 and it was built to be the new capital of Brazil. The reasons to move the capital to the "heart" of the territory were to develop this region and in case of war would be harder invade a capital in the center of Brazil, protected by hills, then in the
coast, were lies the old capital Rio de Janeiro. Brasília has the modern architecture of Oscar Niemeyer and the "Plano Piloto" (Pilot Plan in Portuguese) does the format of the city look like a airplane. Just two capitals in the history of the World were built in 5 years or less: Brasília and Constantinople.
Download: http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/ConstrucaoBrasilia.zip

Farol da Barra: Farol da Barra is the most important Lighthouse of Brazil. It lies is Salvador, former capital, and the first version was built in 1583.
Download: http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/FarolBarra.zip

Ópera de Manaus: The Ópera House of Manaus is one of the most beautiful constructions in Brazil and one of the most important touristy point in Manaus, state of Amazonas, in the north of Brazil.
Download: http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/OperaManaus.zip

Are icons included or are they only splashes? Nice graphics btw

Yoda Power said:

Are icons included or are they only splashes? Nice graphics btw

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Thanks for have enjoyed! There is missing 4 icons (and 5 splashs) yet, I can do them today, here comes the icons:



1A- Stadium of Maracanã
2A- Cabral's Voyage
3A- Quilomo of Palmares
4A- Duque de Caxias' Military Academy
5A- First Catholic Cult
1B- Carnival
2B- Dom Pedro II Library
3B- Construction of Brasilia
4B- Diretas Já (moviment against the Military Dictatorship)
5B- Barra's Lighthouse
1C- Tupinambá Cemitery
2C- Main Hunt of Tupinanbá Village
3C- Operahouse of Manaus
4C- First Churchil of Congonhas
5C- Cacique Cunhambebe's Art of War
1D- Festival of Parintins
2D- Anhangüera's Expedition
3D- Vargas' Legislature for Workers

Expedição de Anhangüera: The Bandeirante were explorers who had the objectives to explore the virgin territories of the colony, found cities, open roads, slave Native Americans, find gold and other riches and work as mercenary when necessary. They were from present São Paulo state, in the Southeaster region of Brazil. The many expeditions have explored the southern, western and northern regions, killing many Native Americans and helping to mark the boarders of the colony. Many roads and cities were founded by these explorers. Many Bandeirante have become famous, as Raposo Tavares, Fernão Dias and the two Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva (father and son), the last two ones with the nickname of Anhangüera. The father's received this nickname of the Tupi tribes, which means "devil". Anhangüera took fire in the cachaça (alcoholic liquid) that looks like water and said he would take fire in their rivers, he slaved and murdered entire tribes with brutality and he was too ugly, for all these reasons he received the nickname of Anhangüera ("devil"). His soon also was a important Bandeirante who command the attack to the Quilombo of Palmares, a group of villages in the Northeaster region formed by scope slaves that resist by decades of the several attacks of the government of the colony.
Download: http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/ExpedicaoAnhanguera.zip

Festival de Parintins: This local festival is one of the main ones of the North region of Brazil and mix aspects of the Europeans and Native American cultures.
Download: http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/FestivalParintins.zip

Leis Trabalhistas de Getúlio Vargas: Getúlio Vargas was one of the most important politician of the Brazilian history: between 1930 and 1955 he was Dictator, President or ruled temporary the presidency. Under his administration Brazil took many advances and many sectors as industrialization and Worker's Laws ("leis trabalhistas" in Portuguese). The Brazilian Legislature for workers in the Vargas Era was one of the most advanced in the World, with the bases that workers of your time have today in the advanced countries, as the right to a descent salary, time limit of 8/day hours for work, paid holydays, the right for women and forbidden children to work.
Download: http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/LeisVargas.zip

Quilombo da Palmares: Quilombo de Palmares was a group of dozens of villages that had a common government and a defensive system against the government of Brazil. It lies in the states of Pernambuco and Alagoas, in a region named Barriga Hills and the population was formed by African slaves who were able to scope of the farms of sugar cane (the "Engenhos"). In its Golden Age the
Quilombo had 20.000 inhabitants and used to commerce with the villages outside Palmares. The two greatest leaders of Palmares were Gangazuma, the founder of this little empire and Zumbi, the greatest African Descendent leadership in Brazil until today. Palmares was attacked many times in many decades by the Colonial Forces and just 80 years after its foundation its capital Macaco was conquered. It also worked as inspiration for other Quilombos around the country, as Jabaquara in the region of Santos (coast of São Paulo state) that had 10.000 inhabitants.
Download: http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads9/QuilomboPalmares.zip