The country being described would be "Spain," since this is the only other country the lies on this peninsula besides Portugal, and Spain was one of the dominant forces in New World conquest.
Answer: Blaise Pascal
Explanation: For years historians considered the inventor of the first mechanical calculator to be the French mathematician, philosopher, and apologist Blaise Pascal (1623-1662). To assist his father's work as a tax collector, the 19-year-old Pascal created a mechanical device that performed simple addition and subtraction.
It relied on a system of slave labor.
The Answer Would Be "A" .
