Before revision: The Prazeros were an ethnic group, consisting of the descendants of Portuguese and Afro-Portuguese hunters and traders who settled in prazos in the Zambezi Valley from the sixteenth throughout the eighteenth century.
After revision: The prazeiros were the Portuguese landowners who ruled in a feudal-like manner vast estates called prazos leased to them by the Portuguese Crown, in the Zambezi Valley from the sixteenth throughout the eighteenth century.