About 1550 CE, the human population of Easter Island was about 7,000; when the first European contact came from the crew of a Dutch ship on Easter Sunday, 5 April 1722, the population of Easter Island ________.
A. was about the same as it was in 1550
B. had become cannibalistic and ate the Dutch sailors
C. had dropped to zero
D. had dropped to about 2,000
E. had ballooned to nearly 50,000
Answer: D
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