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Brazilian here. We had several major conflicts where armies from different states fought each other, tried to take the government, or proclaim independence. We call it all rebellions, it helps sell to ourselves the idea that we are peaceful people with a peaceful history.
Brazil unfortunately has a long tradition of burning its own history and sweeping shit under the rug, just look at how most slave revolts are taught in schools - with almost no details. The Quilombo dos Palmares was a collection of several town-sized holdings, but kids are led to believe that it was just this single place that, one day, just lost a big fight and that was it.
Then there’s the whole story behind Uruguay’s independence which we are not taught at all, despite the country at one time being Brazilian territory (Cisplatina), and how the Paraguay War is taught with barely a page of cause and effect in school books.
And the Bandeirantes were heroic adventurers and jungle explorers.
In general, state-approved interpretations of Chinese history reject the idea that the expanse of land now covered by the CCP regime’s territory was once a region occupied by diverse cultures who fought constantly for supremacy, there is instead a reconstructed continuity of one China that always exists, defending itself against invasion and insurrection, no matter which dynasties replace which. Places now seen as the core of China’s identity were once home to nations that were as ethnically and culturally distinct from one another as they were from the ones in Korea and Japan, for much more of the region’s history than is polite to discuss, but you wouldn’t know it from the official narrative of a country that pays useless slobs 50¢ every time they claim nobody has ever been executed for speaking Manchu.
Everyone knows China existed before the dinosaurs.
