People of ____ of the Brazilian Amazon collected latex from wild rubber trees to supply to traders.

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People of Mundurucu of the Brazilian Amazon collected latex from wild rubber trees to supply to traders.
Some people benefited from the new trade opportunities that had opened up in the 19th century, while many lost their livelihoods after the colonial forest departments took over the forests. Many communities abandoned their traditional occupations to trade in forest products. In the mid-nineteenth century, with the growing demand for rubber, the Mundurucu people of the Brazilian Amazon, who lived in villages on high ground and cultivated manioc, began to collect latex from wild rubber trees to supply to the traders.

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