While you didn't provide us with any concrete answers, this relationship is something related to an alliance, but in reality isn't one because the smaller country is only doing this because they're afraid of repercusions.
Is this a true or false question?
'He conquered all of Greece and Sparta when his father died and he was left in charge of hid kingdom.'
^^ Was the first answer. Which is, without meaning to be to rude, incorrect in so many ways.
Ancient Greece was not a country in the modern sense, it was a loose collection of city-states, of which Sparta is not separate. Sparta is only one of these states, although a prominent one; along with Athens, Thebes, Macedonia and Corinth.
The first European to reach the cape was the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias 12 March in 1488, who named it the "Cape of Storms" (Cabo das Tormentas).
African slavery differed regionally in 18th century based on the product being developed.
During this time period, South Carolina was known for the harvesting of rice. The terrain of this state created ideal conditions for this crop to grow. On the other hand, states like Virginia grew tobacco because of their climate and growing season. This was then extremely different from slaves in the North. Considering the short growing season and frigid temperatures, many slaves did not work on plantations. Rather they worked in the shipping or boating industry since that is what the Northern economy relied on.