Why did Bartolomé de las Casas's arguments win in the Spanish court?
a. He proved that Indians were great warriors.
b. He was well prepared when he met with Charles V.
c. Indians proved to be inadequate laborers.
d. He claimed that Church doctrine did not apply to Indians.
B
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For which of the following reasons did the spread of tobacco cultivation in Virginia lead to conflict with the Indians?
a. The Indians were jealous of the prosperity that tobacco cultivation brought to the English settlers. b. Indian religion associated tobacco with evil spirits and with death. c. In an effort to get workers for their plantations, Virginia planters began to kidnap and enslave Indians. d. The abundant land required for tobacco cultivation caused the settlers increasingly to encroach on Indianlands.
Columbus's claims about what he would reach by sailing west across the Atlantic __________.
A. were almost completely wrong B. proved mainly correct C. were widely accepted by royal advisors across Europe D. were based on previous Spanish and English western voyages
In World War II, the main American strategy to fight Japan was to
A. encourage the Japanese navy to overextend itself past the Gilbert Islands, then attack from behind. B. establish a strong defensive position in the Solomon Islands to lure in the Japanese. C. concentrate U.S. forces into one large offensive moving west from the Marshall Islands. D. quickly recapture the Midway Islands from the Japanese. E. mount two offensive campaigns to attack the Japanese from two directions.
The problems that developed within South Korea in the 1980s were the result of
a. excessive urbanization and pollution of water and air. b. a lack of sufficient national economic growth. c. national achievements in land reform. d. a lack of democratic freedom. e. military threats by China.