Why did the Spanish colonies fail to produce long-term economic growth for Spain?
a. The Portuguese challenged the Spanish in the Americas.
b. The Spanish were too reliant on mineral wealth alone.
c. More advanced militaries were being developed by European powers.
d. Spain's long-term investments in other products did not pay off.
e. Spanish colonies lacked the rich soil needed for a lucrative staple crop.
b
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A) attacking the Mormon Church and its practices. B) granting individual homesteads to reservation Indians. C) opening federal lands for mining. D) providing funding for western railroads.
The first rupture of the European political order established by the Congress of Vienna was
A) the resignation of Metternich in 1848. B) a revolt by the Hungarians in 1848. C) the revolution in France in 1830. D) a military mutiny and provincial uprising in Spain in 1820. E) the result of the abdication of Charles X of Great Britain.
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a. extended over about ten percent of the subcontinent. b. has been attributed, by some scholars, exclusively to the use of heavily armored cavalry to overwhelm his adversaries. c. was the result of a combination of the use of technology, sieges, and diplomacy. d. collapsed immediately after Akbar's death, when the British East India Co. took over. e. extended to Indonesia.