It all starts when Portugal decides to organize a national program to explore the borders of the Unknown. The key figure here is Infante D. Henrique. The cosmopolitan community gathered in Sagres, under the command of Infante, systematizes the technical knowledge available until then and goes on to improve the existing nautical technology. Lusitanian vessels then start to sail to unexplored seas by the Europeans, in an adventure whose result will be not only to transform the image of the world but also to emerge the idea and reality of humanity. Brazil emerges as a moment of this Age of Discovery. As an advanced bridge of Neo-Latin culture, in its Portuguese variant, on the western shores of the South Atlantic. At first, the systematic extra-state colonization. It is the "caramuru" period in the history of Brazil: the mameluca hamlet of Santo André, with João Ramalho, or the eurotupinambá village of Diogo Alvares, in Bahia. Then the state advances, hereditary captaincies, general government. The project of transplantation of Portuguese culture to the tropics. New technologies and new ideologies, brought from a region of Europe that was, in a way, a prototype of America: centuries of miscegenation, centuries of living with difference.