What was Brazil's first name?

Answer 1

Brazil's first name was Ilha de Vera Cruz ("Island of the True Cross"), because the Portuguese that found the land thought that was an Island, in the expedition led by Pedro Alvarez Cabral, from Portugal. Later they would figure that was much bigger than they thought that was and named it Santa Cruz Land. Many years later, after discovery, the wood called Brazil and made great profit on it, the Portuguese named this continental country Brazil.