Aluminum for Souls (1)

Slave trade.

According to what I saw in the "Immortal Order" catalog, the slave trade in this 16th century era was a field dominated by Spain and Portugal.

That was the natural result. They were the only ones with colonies where slaves could be brought to work.

While England, France, the Netherlands, and others would begin expanding overseas in earnest after the 17th century, right now the only colonial empires were those two.

The Spanish and Portuguese used numerous slaves to extract profits from their rapidly expanding new territories.

However, the native population declined rapidly due to smallpox and other epidemics, and later, when the enslavement of natives was prohibited altogether, they turned to slaves from elsewhere who were relatively stronger against diseases and whose supply sources were relatively closer.

These were the slaves from West Africa.