Which group appeared in increasing numbers in later Spanish and Portuguese voyages that set out less for exploration than for conquest or settlement?
A) nobility
B) courtiers
C) clergy
D) serfs
C) clergy
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A. was at first undermined by the republican fear of standing armies. B. was eventually fulfilled by the power of the Second Continental Congress to draft soldiers. C. diminished quickly because he came to rely almost wholly on the militia. D. rose quickly because he concentrated on offensive military strategy rather than on discipline.
At Little Bighorn River in Montana in 1876, the Sioux defeated the U.S. federal cavalry led by __________
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