How would you characterize key elements or tactics used by the Spanish or Portuguese to establish empire? Motives? Results?
Prepare: Read Benjamin, Thomas. The Atlantic World: Europeans, Africans, Indians and Their Shared History, 1400-1900. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Chapter 3: Conquests: Forging the Iberian Empires in Africa and the Americas. Chapter 4: Realms: The Overseas Empires of Spain and Portugal. Fassnacht, Max, Stephanie Fink, Robert Jackson, and Michelle Warn. “The Anatomy […]


