The Mapuche tribes were ultimately defeated in their attempt to resist the Chilean military campaigns because
a. they practiced indigenous religion instead of converting to Catholicism.
b. they practiced human sacrifice, alienating potential supporters.
c. they were suspected of providing assistance in slave revolts, bringing down the wrath of both the government and the landowners.
d. they could not withstand the superior modern weaponry imported from industrialized nations.
e. they were on marginal lands that could not support the tribe, and the Chilean government starved them out.
ANSWER:
d
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