What played a key role in stimulating the Indian Ocean economy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
a. The use of slaves
b. Joint-stock companies
c. The introduction of silver from mines in the Americas
d. New and efficient ships
e. Competition between European powers
c
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Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom
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A Mexica warrior
a. would rise up in society if he was successful in battle. b. assumed the highest place in heaven if he killed an enemy in battle. c. achieved the greatest honor by giving his god a human sacrifice captured in battle. d. thought hand-to-hand combat was the most honorable form of warfare. e. All of these
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