Empires of commerce

This was the worst passage in have read from this text book so far. The writing was bland and there was not a lot of information displayed. The information was displayed in a boring way where interesting facts were few and far between. The passage was vague and did not even mention many of the massacres that the Portuguese participated in. While the book mentions one  it is hard to believe that there was only 1 in that 100 year period. While there is a little more information the Spanish the lack of pictures detailing the trade outposts and routes made this a very hard passage to learn from.