What activity in New Spain enabled Spain to become the richest nation in Europe and probably the world?
a. dominating the Canadian fur trade
b. extracting silver from the land using slave labor
c. conquered thousands of Spanish settlements
d. capturing and herding buffalo to send back to Europe
ANSWER: b
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