Compare and contrast the political, economic, and religious motivations that propelled the expansion of European exploration and influence in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Americas with the political, economic, and religious motivations that propelled European, Chinese, and Indian exploration and influence in Southeast Asia over the same historical periods? Use specific examples to support your views.
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The Moral Majority is an example of a religious right organization in the 1980s
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a. true b. false