What do absolute monarchs need to be able to do?

To keep other european powers from threatening its empire in america, spain sent soldiers, settlers, and?

What does the quote describe? “the closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us….the shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable.”

In what ways did the french revolution produce freedom? what were the limits of this freedom?