Why did Brazil develop more slowly than other areas of Latin America?
a. Difficulty to excavate the terrain.
b. Significant indigenous population resistance to European assimilation.
c. The Portuguese were interested in business empires, not conversion of natives.
d. The local population was smaller and less urbanized, requiring a different labor structure.
e. Brazil had no significant mineral wealth for exploitation.
ANSWER:
d
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