The device of composición was often employed to
A) protect small farmers from the advance of the hacienda.
B) legalize the usurpation of indigenous lands.
C) endow the church with land.
D) establish an entail to preserve land undivided in the hands of a landowner's descendants.
B
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A. It was located in Egypt and the site of early pyramids. . B. It was a secular settlement. C. It was the first to rely on irrigation. D. It became the site of extensive trade networks. E. It was one of the largest urban centers housing more than 6000 people.
The most famous native-born revivalist of the Great Awakening was the intellectually brilliant author of sermons such as "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." He was
A) Jonathan Edwards. B) Charles Chauncy. C) Solomon Stoddard. D) Increase Mather.
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