Manco Inca, a previous Inca ruler and father of Titu Cusi, whom the Spanish had imprisoned after conquering the Inca capital of Cuzco in 1533
Which of the following most directly facilitated the conquest alluded to in the passage?
a) Spanish control of the trans-Atlantic slave trade
b) Spanish advantages over native American populations in terms of technology and disease immunity
c) The completion of the reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula
d) The establishment of a cash-crop plantation economy on some of the islands in the in the Atlantic Ocean
Spanish advantages over native American populations in terms of technology and disease immunity