In what ways did the slave trade affect the demographics of the West Indies and the Americas?
A) ?African slaves came to outnumber native populations.
B) ?Brazilian diseases decimated European settlers and inhibited the growth of African populations.
C) ?African slaves abandoned their religion and culture and adopted that of the native populations.
D) ?All of these choices.
A
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a. selling the policies of the East India Company to illiterate masses. b. opposing the British through nonviolent means. c. preserving traditional Indian rites and religious beliefs. d. modernizing Indian thought and practices.
How would one BEST describe Columbus's performance as an administrator of Hispaniola?
A) incompetent and brief in duration but not as vicious as many of his successors B) highly competent, popular with Spaniards, and fairly long in duration C) highly competent, but unpopular with Spaniards, and fairly short in duration D) incompetent and long in duration, but more vicious than many of his successors
The fact that Venice, Genoa, Byzantium, and Turkey controlled Mediterranean trade routes led Spain and Portugal in the fifteenth century to
a. declare war throughout Europe b. begin the Crusades to recapture these routes c. search for alternative trade routes d. create self-sufficient economies e. trade with each other
A major cause of friction between the Soviets and the other Allies was
A) Soviet plans to invade Italy during the last phases of the war. B) England's expulsion of British communists after the Soviet Union was invaded by Germany. C) France's hopes to annex large parts of Germany. D) Soviet resentment of the British-American delay in opening a second front.