Imagine Brazil is like a big house with a huge backyard full of trees, water, and animals. For a long time, Brazil used its backyard to pick fruits, cut trees, and dig up shiny things like gold — and then it sold those to other people. That’s like having a lemonade stand that only sells lemons you pick from your tree, but never making lemonade yourself!
Then one day, Brazil thought, “Hey! Instead of just selling lemons, what if we build a machine to make lemonade and sell that? We can earn more money and create jobs for people in the house!”
This is kind of what happened when Brazil started to industrialize — it wanted to build things like cars, clothes, and machines instead of just sending raw stuff to other countries.
A few big reasons helped this happen:
- Need to grow up: Like a kid wanting to stop depending on grownups, Brazil wanted to depend less on buying things from other countries and start making its own stuff.
- Big cities: More people started living in cities, which meant more workers and more people who wanted to buy things like clothes, food, and tools.
- Government help: The leaders in Brazil helped by building roads, schools, and giving money to people who wanted to build factories — kind of like giving kids toy blocks to build cool stuff.
So Brazil started turning from a backyard-picker into a builder and maker. That’s what we call industrialization!
