Problem
Use Crash Course's YouTube Video: "Latin American Revolutions: Crash Course World History #31" to answer the two prompts below. Use ample amount of evidence in your explanations.
• Based on knowledge from the film, supplemented if need-be by the readings, how did the move by the Portuguese royal family to Brazil in 1808 diminish sentiments toward independence, and to what extent did the presence of the monarchy in Brazil lead to a break with Portugal in 1822? Give details and explain thoroughly.
• Based on the film, how does Latin America differ from other areas of the "developing world" in the nineteenth century? In what ways is it similar? Elaborate.