What important event led to great prosperity in Brazil from 1879 to 1912?

Correct answer: Amazon rubber boom.

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Snance
Snance
Check out the movie Fitzcaroldo by Wenner Herzog.
luckycatfay
luckycatfay
It always amazes me just how many things come from South America, cocoa, most nuts, coffee, potato, tobacco vanilla, rubber, endless list what did Europe do before it was found. Not get fat or die from cancer maybe not to mention the exploitation Europeans did.