The labor system that compelled native workers to labor in Spanish mines and fields in exchange for protection and Christian conversion was known as
A) the encomienda system.
B) the hacienda.
C) slavery.
D) indentured servitude.
E) the repartimiento system.
Answer: A) the encomienda system.
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A) Edward Blyden. B) Alexander Crummell. C) W. E. B. Du Bois. D) William Monroe Trotter.
By the early 1800s, what had some Japanese officials and scholars concluded?
A) Westerners must be kept out of their country at all costs. B) They needed more knowledge about Western European science and medicine. C) Japanese poetry was far superior to most European verse. D) "Dutch medicine" was the only worthwhile kind. E) They had fallen behind every European country except Russia.
Cities in the fifteenth century
a. featured substantial infrastructure for waste. b. experienced population declines. c. had adequate water supplies. d. relied on the rich to tend to the poor. e. featured houses that were set apart on wide lots.
Which of the following is a reasonable conclusion to be drawn from the account of Mali written by Ibn Battuta in the Rihla?
A. The royal court of Mali attempted to copy the traditions and style of the royal courts of North Africa. B. Malians combined many aspects of African and Islamic culture. C. Women in the Mali empire were socially segregated from men. D. Islam was followed very loosely in Mali.