One result that Simon Bolivar had on South America was that "In 1819, Bolívar was able to successfully create a nation called Colombia."
: “The British used the profits from the sale of opium to purchase such Chinese luxury goods as porcelain, silk, and tea, which were in great demand. They tried to bribe the Chinese with the gifts.”
According to a British army doctor, a cotton plantation should have one slave per two acres, coffee should have two slaves per three acres, and sugar plantations (the worst of the worst) should have one slave per acre
The condition of scare rainfall for a few years is known as a drought (I think)
I would go with the first one