Beirut, Lebanon was once known as the paris of the middle east
The answer is b) flat plains. Egypt is a desert where as Mesopotamia is flat mud plains, so they are not similar there.
Enconmienda differed from slavery in that the Spanish designed the system partly as an economic one, but also as a means of civilizing/Christianizing the indigenous peoples of Latin America and the American Southwest. Slavery, on the other hand, was purely an economic system and instead of encompassing indigenous peoples, it involved the forced relocation of inhabitants of Africa to North and South America.
