Genocide, jeans and demographic boom

In January, 1848 the employee of sawmill Marshall James found in line with Amerikan River river River Amerikan gold fragments. This event is considered the beginning of the Californian gold-rush that attracted thousands adventurers and hunters of easy wealth. Gold-rush most often associate with North America, however this phenomenon at different times arose almost on all continents of a planet. The gold colony the Brazilian gold-rush near the city of Ouro Preto is considered not only the first, but also the most mass in the history. It began at the end of the XVII century and mentioned more than 400 thousand gold prospectors from...