In their attempt to control the spice trade in the Indian Ocean, Europeans during the period between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries
A. were never able to displace the Chinese monopoly.
B. used an alliance with southern Indian princes to achieve success.
C. met with limited success because of a lack of human numbers and military power.
D. used their seemingly godlike advantage in technology to establish a theocracy.
E. achieved a monopoly.
Answer: C
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