Answer:
Yes
Explanation:
The researchers found that the settlements, which comprise just 5.3 percent of the 5 million square kilometers (over 1.2 billion acres) of Brazilian Amazon, contributed as much as 13.5 percent of all deforestation recorded to date. Forest cover in the settlements declined, on average, to about 44 percent.
This is a bit subjective, but it could be argued that social change had the biggest change in Southern life, since the abolition os slavery (which was inherently a social issue) led to the biggest changes.
A refuge for people of the Catholic faith.
The conquistadors came looking for gold and other valuable things.