Carnival has its roots date back to ancient Greeks and Romans, who celebrated the rites of spring. In the Middle Ages when the Catholic Church has tried to suppress all pagan ideas, it failed when it came to this celebration. The Church incorporated the rite in your calendar as a time of thanksgiving. The nations of Europe, notably France, Spain and Portugal, gave thanks by throwing parties, wearing masks and dancing in the streets. All three colonizing powers carried the tradition with them to the New World, but in Brazil it landed with a difference. The Portuguese had a taste for abandoned merriment, which brought the entrudo, a prank where merry makers throw water, flour, face powder, and many other things to each others faces.
Before 1840, the streets of the city Brazilian riot during the three days up to Ash Wednesday with people in masks hurling stink bombs and squirting each other with flour and strong smelling liquid arson was a form of entertainment. In 1840, the wife of an Italian in Rio de Janeiro hotel owner changed the carnival celebration forever by sending out invitations, hiring musicians, importing streamers and confetti, and giving a masked ball prodigious. Within a few years the masked ball became the fashion and the wild pranks played on the streets disappeared.
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