About 600 hundred years ago the Powhatan people increasingly came into conflict with their neighbors because
a. Weather changes reduced corn crops and required more demand for limited wild game and food.
b. Western tribes waged war against them for access to the Atlantic coast.
c. Europeans had begun to take over the Virginia Coast in large numbers.
d. They sought to increase their political influence in the region.
ANSWER: a
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