I’ve never read that book sorry
The main rivalries during the Great Game were "Russia and Great Britain"
<u>Portugal</u> was the European country that had a colony in Brazil. It initially brought in slaves to grow <u>Sugar</u>.
The period was marked by a return to past texts of knowledge,
Explanation:
The period being talked about here was one of intellectual inquiry into the past.
The Europeans had been involved in the renaissance and discovering the old texts of Greece and Europe again.
Chinese missionaries were looking for Buddhist texts of the yoke.
Akbar had commissioned to know the great knowledge of the Indian antiquity by making the translations of the texts into his court language and then using the principles that deemed useful by him.