Create 5 critically thinking questions and answers based on: • The Conquest of Mecico and Peru • Sugar and slavery in Portuguese Brazil • Iberian Empires in the Americas • Mining and Agriculture in...

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Q: Were there any similarity between the conquests of Mexico and Peru?
A: Yes, attracted by the wealth and power of the then empires in Peru and Mexico, both the great conquests of Mexico and Peru were carried on by the Spanish Invaders known as the Conquistadors resulting in the destruction of the Inca Empire in Peru and the Aztec empire in Mexico. Although both of the Native American empires has powerful and strong leadership at the helm, the betrayal by the Spanish Conquistadors led to their downfall and their land clained and colonized by the Spanish.
Q: How did Sugar feed slavery in Portuguese Brazil?
A: Slave trading was prominent in the 1500s in Portugese Brazil. Mainly fueled by the labour demand in sugarcane plantations in Brazil, the Brazilian portugese community indulged in slave trade and brought slaves from Africa to work in these plantations. Sugarcane was a major resourse during that time which required a lot of labour work to be performed by the slaves.
Q: What was the foundation of Iberian Empires in the Americas?
A: The Iberian Empire was founded as a result of dynastic union between the Spanish and the Portugese empire unifying the entire Hispanic territory and making it a unified Visigothic empire. Between 1450 and c. 1550, the vast Iberian Altantic empire was formed under the reign of the Spanish Habsburg kings Philip II, Philip...