TWO FROM EACH POOL Good luck! 111 1.1 How did Europe's Napoleonic wars set the stage for independence in Spanish America and Brazil? 1.2 Compare the process of independence in Brazil and Spanish America. 1.3. What challenges did Latin American countries face between 1820 and 1860? Focus on the political arena and the economy and discuss how people experienced challenges differently depending on geographical, class, gender, ethnic, and racial divides. 1.4 Discuss the role that international and internal wars had in the making of Latin American nations in the nineteenth century. Examples of international conflicts are the U.S.-Mexican War (1846-48), the Paraguayan War (1864-70), the French Intervention in Mexico (1862-1867), and the War of the Pacific (1879-84). Examples of internal conflicts include the wars against independent indigenous polities and conflicts between Latin American liberals and conservatives. 1.5 How did the great export boom transform Latin American countries? What sorts of commodities did Latin America export, and how were they produced? What sorts of governments arose to oversee the neocolonial order in Latin America