The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

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Multiple Choice

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"[Spaniards'] reason for killing and destroying such an infinite number of souls is that the Christians have an ultimate aim,which is to acquire gold,and to swell themselves with riches in a very brief time and thus rise to a high estate disproportionate to their merits. It should be kept in mind that their insatiable greed and ambition,the greatest ever seen in the world,is the cause of their villainies.And also,those lands are so rich and felicitous,the native people so meek and patient,so easy to subject,that our Spaniards have no more consideration for them than beasts."
Bartolomé de las Casas,A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies,1552
-De las Casas would have agreed with which of the following interpretations?

• A) Christians are all motivated by greed.
• B) Plantation-based agricultural systems in the Americas required the exploitation of local resources.
• C) The Portuguese treated natives with dignity and respect.
• D) European treatment of natives was the result of cultural and linguistic misunderstandings.

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Definitions:

Voltage Difference

The difference in electric potential between two points in an electric circuit, driving the flow of current.

Farad

The SI unit of capacitance, describing a capacitor's ability to store charge per unit of electric potential difference, named after Michael Faraday.

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AC

Alternating Current, a type of electrical current where the current's direction and amplitude vary cyclically.