What Pacific island people in New Zealand suffered extreme population loss after exposure to unfamiliar infectious diseases?
A. Australian Aborigines
B. the Maori
C. the Tonga
D. the Kanaka Maoli
Answer: B
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A) Mantua. B) Florence. C) Rome. D) Venice. E) Naples.
Between 1850 and 1910, European population
A) increased from 270 million to 460 million. B) actually decreased slightly. C) increased from 140 to 190 million. D) stagnated, causing severe problems for the development of leisure industries. E) declined significantly because of the pollution engendered by increasing urbanization.
In early-nineteenth-century America, the
a. annual population growth rate was much higher than in colonial days. b. urban population was growing at an unprecedented rate. c. birthrate was rapidly declining. d. death rate was increasing. e. United States had become the most populous nation in the western world.
In his letter to Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson instructed Lewis to find a river route to the __________
A) Great Salt Lake B) Gulf of Mexico C) Atlantic Ocean D) Pacific Ocean