True as Elizabeth I died in 1603 and they were defeated by the Spanish Armanda in 1588.
the answer is D. Germany.
In general, it was people from Portugal who first shipped enslaved Africans to the New World. Although it should be noted that the British and the French soon followed suit.
I think he uses a metaphor about africa being a cake and he wants a piece of it, like the rest of of the european powers
