Military success in the sixteenth century for the rulers of Europe depended primarily on their use of ______________.
A. mercenary armies
B. conscripted soldiers from their vassal subjects
C. galleons to form an armada in the navy
D. New World silver to purchase new weapons
E. gunpowder from the Turkish Empire
Answer: A
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