The high technology in the ships of the Portuguese gave them an advantage over other countries, becoming the most powerful navigators during those two centuries. Portuguese trading focused mainly on obtaining gold, ivory, and pepper; but in addition to these products, so prized in Europe, it is estimated that more than 175,000 slaves were also carried on Portuguese ships to Europe and the Americas in the greatest migration of people during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
The people of the United States
Let's look at this question differently: who had the most power in the European feudal system? the ones who owed livestock? The ones who owned gold?
No, the ones with the power were the land owner, and this is the correct answer: (2) land.
The first one is the answer ;)
